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there is an opening, and fills up all witli so mucb 

 nice contrivance, and at tlie same tinie with so 

 mucli picturesque irregularity, tliat we rarely 

 wish for an amendment in her works. So true, 

 indeed, this is, that nothing is so dangerous as 

 to take away a tree from a group. You will 

 infallibly destroy the balance, which can never 

 again be restored. 



Thus far we have considered a givup as a 

 single independent object — as the object o? & fore- 

 ground — consisting of such a confined number of 

 trees as the eye can fairly include at once. And 

 when trees strike our fancy, either in the wild 

 scenes of Nature or in the improvements of art, 

 they will ever be found in combinations similar 

 to these. 



"When the group grows larger it becomes 

 quahfied only as a remote object — combining with 

 vast woods, and forming a part of some extensive 

 scene, either as a first, a second, or a third dis- 

 tance. 



The great use of the larger group is to lighten 

 the heaviness of a continued distant loood, and ,^ 

 connect it gently with the plain, that the transi- 



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