SECTION VII. 



FOREST LAWNS AND FOREST HEATHS. 



(,,;.-;-,< A VING- thus taken a view of tlie 



internal parts of a forest, which, 

 consist chiefly of foregrounds, we 

 shall now consider the forest in a 

 light just the reverse, as consist- 

 ' ing chiefly of distances. In both 

 lights, it is greatly picturesque ; and 

 Dnly more, or less so, in either, as the 

 eye is more pleased with a close or a 

 diffusive landscape. 



"We skirt and penetrate the recesses of the 

 woods for the closer view ; but we frequent the 

 forest lawn and heath for the distant one. The 

 beauty of those scenes (especially of the heath, 

 which is a large surface), depends, it is true, in 



