272 Gilpin's forest scenery. 



trees, disperses and loses itself as it gains the 

 summit of the glen. Or, still more beautifully 

 perhaps, the eye breaks out, at some opening, 

 into the country, enriched with, all the varieties of 

 distant landscape — a winding stream — plains and 

 woods melting together — and blue mountains 

 beyond. 



As an object of distance, also, the woody glen 

 has often a good effect — climbing the sides of 

 mountains, breaking their lines, and giving variety 

 to their bleak and barren sides. 



In many places you see the glen under the 

 hands of improvement, and, when you happen to 

 have a scene of this kind near your bouse, you 

 cannot well kave a more fortunate circumstance. 

 But great care should be taken not to load it witli 

 ornament. Sucb scenes admit little art. Their 

 beauty consists in their natural wildness ; and the 

 best rule is to add little, but to be content with, 

 removing a few deformities and obstructions. A 

 good walk, or a path, there must be; and the 

 great art will consist in conducting it, in the 

 easiest and most natural way, to the spot where 

 the cascade, tbe rock, or any other object which 



