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ment, tlie intention is often frustrated. It must/ 

 be done artfully, and considerately, or in general 

 your design will be apparent, and the eye disgusted 

 The master of the scene himself, who is always or 

 the spot, and examines it frequently from every 

 stand, if he be a man of taste, will be the best\\ 

 improver, and direct the felling axe with most' 

 judgment. At the same time, we frequently see 

 trees cut down carelessly for the purpose of utility, 

 which have opened greater beauties than any they 

 possessed themselves when standing ; though the 

 preconceived loss of them was greatly lamented. 

 But this can only happen where trees abound. 



I shall conclude this enumeration of the in- 

 cidental beauties belonging to forest scenery, with 

 an appendage, which we frequently see in it — that 

 of a timber- wain, an object of tlie most picturesque 

 kind, especially when drawn by oxen. Here the 

 tree, when dead, adorns again the landscape which 

 it adorned when living. A gilded chariot is an 

 object which art has industriouly tricked out and 

 decorated. It is of a piece, therefore, with all such 

 artificial objects, as are the most unlike Nature. 

 Whereas the timber-wain is at least a piece of 



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