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views. I have adorned thefe fcenes alfo with 

 their proper appendages, wild horfes, deer, 



and other pidturefque inhabitants. 1 might 



greatly have multiplied both my general and 

 particular remarks ; but I fear I ought rather 

 to apologize for my redundancies, than my 

 omijjions. 



I now clofe my obfervations with a ligh 

 over the tranfitory ftate of the feveral fcenes, 

 I have defcribed. I mean not, with unphi- 

 lofophic weaknefs, to bemoan the perifhable 

 condition of fublunary things : but to lament 

 only, that, of all fublunary things, the wood- 

 land-fcene, which is among the tnojl beautiful^ 

 ihould be among the mojl periJJjable. 



Some fpecies of landfcape are of permanent 

 nature ; fuch particularly as depend on rocks, 

 mountains, lakes, and rivers. The ornamen- 

 tal appendages indeed of thefe fcenes, the 

 oaks, and elms, that adorn them, are of a 

 more tranlient kind. But the grand con- 

 flituent parts of them may be fuppofed coeval 

 with nature itfelf. Nothing lefs than fome 

 general convullion can injure them. 



Such landfcape again as depends for beauty 

 on old caftles, abbeys, and other ruins, ge- 

 nerally efcapes for ages the depredations of 



time. 



