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Sometimes alfo, after a heavy fliovver, when 

 all the vapours are precipitated, as the rain 

 goes off, and the air becomes perfectly dia- 

 phanous, like an Italian fky, the illand will 

 <idvance many leagues towards the eye : every 

 part of it will be perfectly confpicuous -, even 

 the little divifions of property will appear 

 faintly fketched upon it : yet ilill the clearnefs 

 of the other parts of the landfcape according 

 with it, all will be in place, and a general 

 harmony preferved. 



Thefe are chiefly fummer-effe6ts. I have 

 often however feen beautiful effects in winter 

 of a fimilar kind ; efpecially in a morning 

 fomewhat inclining to froft ; when the rays 

 of the fun have appeared, as it were, ftrug- 

 gling between the hazinefs of the ifland, the 

 fmoke of the town, and the fplendor of the 

 fifing fun. In one part diftincftnefs has pre- 

 vailed ; in another, obfcurity. 1 have feen 



alfo fomething of the fame effed: in a winter- 

 noon ; only rendered perhaps ftill more beau- 

 tiful by ftreaks of ruddy fun-fet paffmg along 

 the horizon, and joining in the conflid:. 



Sometimes alfo a winter-fun produces effefts 

 in this, as in many other landfcapes, which a 

 fummer-fun cannot exhibit. In a meridian- 



R 3 hour. 



