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a form, and many a hue, wMcli, in the full glare 

 of sunshine would be harsh and discordant, are 

 melted together in harmony. "We often see the 

 effects of this mode of atmosphere in various 

 species of landscape, but it has nowhere a 

 better eflFect than on the woods of the forest. 

 Nothing appears, through mist, more beautiful 

 than trees a little removed from the eye when 

 they are opposed to trees at hand ; for, as the 

 foliage of a tree consists of a great number of 

 parts, the contrast is very pleasing between the 

 varied surface of the tree at hand, and the dead, 

 unvaried appearance of the removed one. Very 

 often a picture, in part unfinished, pleases the eye 

 more from contrast than when every part is fully 

 made out. Such, often, is the effect of the hazy 

 medium. 



The light mist is only a greater degree of 

 haziness. Its object is a nearer distance, as a 

 remote one is totally obscured by it. In this 

 situation of the atmosphere not only all the 

 strong tints of Nature are obscured, but all the 

 smaller variations of form are lost. We look 

 only for a general mass of softened harmony and 



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