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beauties, that will meet and blend in harmony, receive 

 his lesson from natm-e in her own wilds. Let him look 

 upon her countenance, before it has been disfigured by 

 a barbarous art, to acquire his ideas of beauty and pro- 

 priety, and he will never mar her features, by adding 

 gems that do not harmonize with their native expres- 

 sion, plucked from the bosom of a foreign clime. Then, 

 although he may not sit under the shade of the palm or 

 the myrtle, or roam among sweet-scented orange 

 groves, in the climate of northern fruits and northern 

 flowers, he needs no foreign trees or shrubbery to deco- 

 rate his grounds, or adapt them to his pleasures. In a 

 forest of his own native pines, he may find an arbor in 

 summer, and a shelter in winter, as odoriferous as a 

 grove of cinnamon and myrtles ; and the fruits of his 

 own orchards will yield him a repast more savory than 

 the produce of the Indies. 



