SECTION III. 



THE COPSE. 



~J4 EOM scenes of art, let us hasten to 

 ''^ tlie cBief object of our pursuit, tlie 

 wild scenes of Nature — the wood, 

 the cojpse, the glen, and open grove. 

 Under the term wood we include 

 every extensive combination of 

 forest, trees in a state of Nature. All 

 such combinations, though without the 

 privilege of forests, compose the same 

 kind of scenery. The description, therefore, of 

 such scenes will come most properly under the 

 head of forest views, on which we shall hereafter 

 dwell at large. At present, let us examine the 

 smaller combinations ; and first the copse. 



The copse is a species of scenery composed, 



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