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If then fo great a variety of incidents arife 

 from the few circumftances of landfcape, 

 which are found at this place ; with what 

 variety may we fuppofe landfcapes of a larger 

 fize, and compofed of more complicated parts, 

 may be attended ? particularly, extenfive dif- 

 tances, which are of all others attended with 

 the greateft variety of incidental beauty. Every 

 landfcape indeed hath fomething peculiar to 

 itfelf, which difpofes more or lefs to receive 

 the incidents of light, and weather in fome 

 peculiar manner. An open fea-coaft, one 

 fhould think of fo fimple a conftrudlion, as to 

 be little liable to receive any change ; and yet 

 I have ftood upon a fea-coaft, on a fun-fliiny 

 cloudy day, when the wind has been rather 

 brifk ; and have in lefs than an hour, feen the 

 whole pidlure under a dozen different forms, 

 from the varying of the lights in the iky, on 

 the horizon, on the furface of the water, or 

 on fome part of the coaft. 



The conclufions from all thefe remarks are, 

 that every landfcape is, in itfelf, a fcene of 

 great variety — that there are few landfcapes, 

 which have not, at fome time or other, their 

 happy moments — that a landfcape of extent, 

 and beauty will take the full period of a year, 



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