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trees, which are rare, fcathed, and meagre, 

 are in general not only ugly, but ill-combined. 

 Some formalities alfo give it a bad effed:. 

 Before, it was irregularly great, and fimple : 

 here the road rifes to the eye in three regular 

 ftages. The fummit too is formally abrupt. 

 The road cut through the wood, forms here 

 a gaping chafm, opening like a wide portal, 

 difcovering the naked horizon, and making, 

 as it were, a full paufe in the landfcape : we 

 difcover it plainly to be artificial-, and this 

 hurts the eye. The effedt is beautiful on the 

 other fide of Lyndhurfl, where the chafm of 

 the vifta, as you approach, is filled with 

 the tops of retiring trees, which excites the 

 idea of fomething beyOnd it ; and gives it a 

 more natural air. 



This gaping chafm appears long the ftriking 

 feature of the view, as we rife the hill. In 

 our approach to it however the eye is, here 

 and there, agreeably drawn afide ; particularly 

 by a foreft-lawn, which prefents itlelf about 

 a mile, and a half from Lyndhurft ; opening 

 both on the right and left. It is decorated 

 irregularly with wood — rifes before the eye — 

 blends itfelf leifurely with a few fcattered 

 trees, and clumps, which come forward from 



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