SECTION VI. 



THE FOEEST. 



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kinds of 



thus considered various 

 woody scenery, and 

 traced the peculiar beauties of 

 eacli, we proceed next to the 

 forest, which, in a manner, com- 

 prehends them alL There are few 

 extensive forests which do not contain, 

 in some part or other, a specimen of 

 every species of woody landscape. The 

 wild forest view, indeed, differs essentially from 

 the embellished one; though sometimes we find 

 even the forest lawn in a polished state, when 

 browsed by deer into a fine turf, and surrounded 

 by stately woods. Beauty, however, is not the 

 characteristic of the forest. Its peculiar dis- 



