384 Strutt’s Delicice Sylvarum. 
the copper, the better. Atall events, if he thinks well to make 
any material alteration in a plate, the portion of work which it 
is wished to erase should be erased thoroughly, and not left as 
a blot to mar the fair beauty of the whole. Had our artist more 
scrupulously attended to this rule, we should not have had to 
lament the imperfect apparition of a waggon and horses still 
visible in the next plate we shall notice, which represents a 
scene from Marlborough Forest. We have here a portrait of 
a beautiful and extraordinary oak ( fg. 101.), which, we are 
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informed, “ from a large portion of its branches scarcely 
lifting themselves off the earth, is known by the name of the 
creeping oak.” This tree ought by all means to have found 
a place in the Silva Britannica, and would have made an 
appropriate companion to the king oak (fig. 102.), standing 
in the same forest, and of which" a portrait is given in that 
work. 
We pass on to the second number, in which we find the 
wild and romantic Linn of Dee in the forest of Brae-mar 
Scotland, the Burnham Beeches, and two scenes in the Forest 
of Arden. Of these plates, which are all good, we admire 
most the two former, on account of the superior brilliancy and 
sharpness of the etching; and particularly that of the Burn- 
ham Beeches. We can speak to the accuracy of this plate as 
a view, having ourselves sauntered with infinite delight in this 
