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ened favannah, which fets them off to great 



advantage*. On the other fide of the lawn, 



the diftances are woody ; but more broken, 

 and not fo remote. 



Nor are the home-views around this 

 beautiful fpot, lefs pleafmg, than thofe at 

 a diftance. We wound near a mile round 

 the lodge, through a fuccelTion of rich 

 foreft-fcenery, compofed chiefly of beech. 

 The trees themfelves are among the moll 

 beautiful of their kind, having been fecured 

 from the axe by the protection of the houfe 

 they adorn. But ftill the beech, even in 

 perfection, is inferior to the oak, the elm, 

 and the afh, in moll of the charaderiftics of 

 pidurefque beauty. It has always too much 

 of a fpiry pointednefs in the extremities of it's 

 branches ; which gives a littlenefs to it's parts- 

 In it's moll beautiful form it rarely Ihakes off 

 this charaCterillic imperfedlion. If the trees 

 however as individuals, were lefs pleafmg, 

 their combinations were highly beautiful ; and 

 exhibited much fcenery from thofe natural 



* The fame kind of fituation, only varied, is defcribed in 

 page 63. 



openings. 



