GILPIN'S F0EB8T SCENEEY. 



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SECTION I. 



PICTUEESQUIii BEAUTY OJ? TEEES. 



'iT^C^^^xft"^ is no exaggerated praise to call a 



tree the grandest and most beau 

 tiful of all the productions o£ the 

 earth. In the former of these 

 epithets nothing contends with it ; 

 for we consider rocks and moun- 

 tains as part of the earth itself. And 

 though, among inferior plants, shrubs, 

 and flowers, there is great beauty, yet 

 when we consider that these minuter productions 

 are chiefly beautiful as individuals, and are not 



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