SECTION IX. 



SCENERY APPECTBD BY THE WEATHER. 



I<AYING thus considered wliat may 

 properly be called the permanent 

 beauties of distant forest scenery, 

 we proceed to its incidental beau- 

 ties. These arise principally from 

 two causes — the weather and the 

 seasons. As both are changeable, they 

 both produce various appearances. The 

 former aflFects chiefly the shy, the latter 

 the earth. 



The weather is a fruitful source of incidental 

 beauty; and there are few states of it which 

 do not impress some peculiar and picturesque 

 character on landscape, to which it gives the 

 A country is chiefly affected by the 



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leading tint 



