348 Gilpin's forest scenery. 



lengtli in tlie Spring, or indeed at any other 

 season. 



But the leafy forest is not solely the object of 

 incidental beauty. The picturesque eye finds great 

 amusement even in its wintry scenes, when it has 

 thrown its rich, mantle aside, and appears, to the 

 common eye, naked and deformed. 



The hazy sunshine of a frosty morning, is 

 accompanied with an indistinctness peculiar to 

 itself. The common haziness of a summer day 

 spreads over the landscape one general grey tint ; 

 and, as we have had occasion to remark in diflFerent 

 circumstances, is often the source of great beauty. 

 But the effect we are here observing is of a dif- 

 ferent kind. It is generally more partial — more 

 rich — and mixing with streaks of different coloured 

 clouds, which often form behind it, produces a 

 very pleasing effect. The case is, the sun is lower 

 in the horizon and produces an effect which a 

 meridian situ cannot do. 



Great beauty, also, arises in "Winter, from the 

 different tints of the spray. The dark-brown 

 spray of the Birch, for instance, has a good effect, 

 among that of a lighter tinge ; and, when the forest 



