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horror in tliem (which often adds greatly 

 to the piciurefque effed) the alTociated ideas 

 of unhappinefs cloud the fcene, and make it 

 difpleafmg, 



I mean not, when a perfon is among objeds, 

 which in their remote confequences give 

 delight ; or in the midft of fcenes, which 

 are connected with diftrefs ; that he fhould 

 not feel the natural impreifions they make 

 — all I mean is, to inveftigate the fources 

 of beauty ; to limit the different t?iodes of 

 pleafure, and pain -, to feparate caufes, and 

 effeBs ; and to evince that a fcene, tho it 

 abound with circumftances of horror, may be 

 very piBurefque -, while another may be intirely 

 the rever/e, tho replete with incidents, that 

 produce joy and happinefs. 



I have an inftance at hand to my purpofe. 

 One of our voyagers* to the northern feas, in 

 failing up a river, thus defcribes the fcene. 

 ** The country, fays he, on each fide, was 

 very romantic j but unvaried ; the river run- 

 ning between mountains of the mofl craggy 

 and barren afpedt ; where there was nothing 



* Capt. King who fucceeded capt. Cook, p. 207. 



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