334 Gilpin's forest scenery. 



No master was better acquainted with. tHese 

 circumstances than the younger Vandervelt. In 

 all his sea-storms he avails himself of them, and 

 is remarkable for the grand masses of light and 

 shade which he produces. 



The land-storm is equally a source of beauty. 

 When the tempest scowls over the forest, as we 

 traverse its deep recesses, what grandeur do the 

 internal parts of it receive from the casual ray 

 darting upon them ! Or, when we view it as a 

 distant object, and see the storm blackening 

 behind the trees, with what wonderful effect 

 does the sun, in an opposite direction, strike their 

 tufted heads ! But if that sun be setting, while 

 the tempest is brewing over the hemisphere, black 

 towards the east — lurid — more purple — and glow- 

 ing with red, as it advances towards the west — 

 then it is, that the utmost value is given to its 

 effect. The castle, the lake, or the forest scene, 

 whether viewed in shadow against the ruddy 

 light, or illumined under the storm, appear in 

 full grandeur; and we see all that light and 

 shade in extreme contention, yet fully harmonized, 

 can produce. 



