32-i Gilpin's eoiIest scenerv. 



of the vision depends on the glowing lights which 

 are mingled with it. 



Landscape painters, in general, pay too little 

 attention to the discriminations of morning and 

 evening. We are often at a loss to distinguish in 

 pictures, the rising from the setting sun, though 

 their characters are very different, both in the 

 lights and shadows. The ruddy lights, indeed, of 

 the evening are more easily distinguished ; but it 

 is not, perhaps, always sufficiently observed, that 

 the shadows of the evening are much less opaque 

 than those of the morning. They may be 

 brightened, perhaps, by the numberless rays float- 

 ing in the atmosphere, which are incessantly re- 

 verberated in every direction, and may continue 

 in action after the sun is set. Whereas, in the 

 morning, the rays of the preceding day having 

 subsided, no object receives any light but from 

 the immediate lustre of the sun. Whatever be- 

 comes of the theory, the fact, I believe, is well 

 ascertained. 



The incidental heaidies which the meridian sun 

 exhibits, are much fewer than those of the risinrj 

 snn. In summer, when he rides high at noon and 



