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Strutfs Delicice Sylvdrmn, 



the copper, the better. At all 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 (fig, 101.), which, we are 



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 Sylva Britdnnica, and would have made an 

 appropriate companion to the king oak {Jig. 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 Bum- 

 ham Beeches. We can speak to the accuracy of this plate as 

 a view, having ourselves sauntered with infinite delight in this 



