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If it be demanded, how fuch ill courfes 

 are to be flopped : I anfwer, Raife their 



hedp;es ; the fcattered trees that rife In them give 

 different fhades of green, and the light being leen 

 through their branches, has the real effeft of a 

 brilliant clear obfciire, fo difficult to be imitated 

 ih painting : This beautiful valley is loft among 

 proje*5ling hills, feme covered with pendent woods, 

 others v/afte, and fome cultivated. 



More to the right towards ti:e terrafs, the view 

 IS exquifite : The waving plancation of trees and 

 Ihrubs bound the terrafs on one fide j leading to 

 the ionic temple, which is beautifully fituated, 

 on the other fide, the valley winds in a lower 

 region, and prefents a rom.antic fcene : It confifts 

 of grafs inclofures, fcattered with trees ; a village 

 of ftraggling houfes, keeping their hc-ads above 

 natural clumps, each a landfcape of itfelf ; T^is 

 fweet valley, is bounded by fweep of hills. 



following the terrafs, the views are different. 

 Nothing can be finer than the valley waving to 

 <he right and left, a river winding through it, 

 almofi: overfhadowed with trees, which rife from 

 the very fliore into hanging woods, that fpread 

 forth an extent of hills, cut with grafs in^ 

 jclofures. 



Purfuing the courfe, the landfcape opens and 

 prefents its beauties full to the eye. The valley 

 js here broad, the inclofures numerous, the ver- 

 dure of the meadows beautiful : and the fcattered 

 trees and rapid ftream add greatly to the fcene ; 

 The hanging woods have a noble appearance; 



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