318 Gilpin's forest scenery. 



sober colouring, unmarked by any strength of 

 effect. The vivid hues of autumn, particularly, 

 appear to great advantage through this medium. 

 Sometimes these mists are partial ; and, if they 

 happen to coincide with the composition of the 

 landscape, this partiality is attended with peculiar 

 beauty. I have remarked in other works of this 

 kind,* that when some huge promontory emerges 

 from a spreading mist which hangs over one part 

 of it, it not only receives the advantage of con- 

 trast, but it also becomes an object of double 

 grandeur. We often see the woods of the forest 

 also with peculiar advantage emerging through a 

 mist in the same style of greatness. I have known 

 likewise a nearer distance, strongly illumined, pro- 

 duce a good effect through a light, drizzling 

 shower. 



Nearly allied to mists is another incidental 

 appearance, that of smoke, which is often at- 

 tended with peculiar beauty in woody scenes. 

 When we see it spreading in the forest glade, and 

 forming a soft bluish background to the trees 



* See Observations on Scotland, v. ii. p. 174. 



