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their effect* ; yet in a rich foreft-fcene, if 

 they prefent themfelves too often, they offend. 

 For all the other purpofes of fcenery how- 

 ever, and in all the more removed parts of this 

 vifta, inferior trees, if they be full grown, 

 anfwer tolerably well ; and when intermixed 

 with ftunted trees, and bruih-wood, as they are 

 in the wild parts of the foreft, they are more 

 beautiful, than if the whole fcene had been 

 compofed of trees of the ffatelieft order. 

 Interftices are better filled -, and a more wii- 



form whole is produced. Confidered in this 



light a foreft is a picSlure of the world. 

 We find trees of all ages, kinds, and degrees 

 — the old, and the young — the rich, and 

 the poor — the ftately, and the depreffed — 

 the healthy, and the infirm. The order of 

 nature is thus preferved in the world j and 

 the beauty of nature is thus preferved in the 

 foreft. 



A gentleman once confulted his friend, 

 who pretended to a degree of tafte, about 

 the propriety of cutting down fome trees, 

 which ftiaded a winding avenue to his back- 

 front, where his oftices were placed. His 



See vol. I page 8. 



friend 



