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of the evening- fun upon the cliffs and broken 

 ihores of the ifland, appear firft about the 

 beginning of april ^ but they grow ftronger, as 

 the power of the fun increafes. Various other 

 tints alfo of a bluifh, purplifli, and yellowifh 

 hue, the effe<fts of evening-funs in fummer, 

 occafionally invert: the ifland. 



But hazinefs, and mifts are here, as in 

 other places, the great fources of variety. 

 In general, they have a good effe(ft ; but 

 fometimes a bad one. As the remote part 

 of the landfcape, which conlills of the ifle 

 of Wight, does not immediately conned: with 

 the woods on one fide, and the town of 

 Lymington on the other, but is feparated 

 from them by the channel, which is about 

 two, or three leagues acrofs, it of courfe 

 happens, that when a partial fog removes the 

 ifland alone from the fight, a violent chafm 

 is left in the landfcape : there is no gradation ; 

 the rifing grounds, on which Lymington llands, 

 appears ftaring againft a foggy fky without 

 any fupport of diffcance. Nothing can fliew 

 more flrongly the ufe of diflances, in com- 

 pleating the harmony of a view. When the 

 feveral parts of a country melt into each other, 

 as in the grand diflance we have juft been 

 R 2 furveying 



