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wliicli tte pride and dignity of forest views con- 

 sist. We liave already observed that the wild 

 and rough parts of Nature produce the strongest 

 eflFects on the imagination ; and, we may add, they 

 are the only objects in landscape which please the 

 picturesque eye. Everything trim and smooth 

 and neat affects it coolly. Propr iety brings us 

 to acquies ce in _the_ elegant and well-adapted 

 e mbellishment s of artj_ but the painter who 

 should introduce them on canvas, would be 

 characterized as a man void of taste, and utterly 

 unacquainted with the objects of picturesque 

 selection. Such are the great materials which 

 we expect to find in the skirts and internal parts 

 of the forest — trees of every kind, but particularly 

 the oldest and roughest of each. We examine, 

 next, the mode of scenery which results from their 

 combinations. 



In speaking of the glen * we observed that the 

 principal beauty of it arose from those little 

 openings or glades with which it commonly 

 abounds. It is. thus in the forest woods. The 



See page 269. 



