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tiful, and we found the grand vifla better 

 fupported with wood. 



In wooded fcenes, like thefe, the plano- 

 convex-mirror, which was Mr. Gray's com- 

 panion in all his tours*, has a pleafing effed:. 

 Dijiances indeed, reduced to fo fmall a furface, 

 are loil; it is chiefly calculated for objeBs at 

 hand\, which it fhews to more advantage. 



When we examine nature at large^ we ftudy 

 compofition, and effeB. We examine alfo the 

 forms of particular objeBs. But from the 

 fize of the objects of nature, the eye cannot 

 perform both thefe operations at once. If it 

 be engaged in general effeBs, it poftpones 

 particular objeBs ; and if it be fixed on parti- 

 cular objeBs, whofe forms, and tints it gathers 

 up with a pafling glance from one to another, 

 it is not at leifure to obferve general effeBs. 



* See Gray's memoirs, page 352. 



t Mr. Gray, on viewing the ruins of an abbey, fays, " They 

 were the trueft objefls of his glafs he had met with any where. " 

 He does not indeed affign the reafon ; but if he had confidered 

 it, he might have feen, it was, becaufe they prefented a happy 

 difplay of prejent o\i]zSi%. See his memoirs, page 380. 



But 



