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it is as impossible to produce the same 

 effect by new plantations, as to produce 

 immediately the far-spreading beech or 

 majestic oak, now become venerable by 

 the lapse of centuries. Every man who 

 possesses land and money may, in a few 

 years, have young plantations and covers 

 for game of many acres in extent ; but 

 no cost can produce immediate forest 

 scenery, or purchase the effect of such 

 hedge-row trees, as are too frequently 

 overlooked and buried among firs and 

 larches and faggot wood, to accomplish 

 the exact monotonous serpentine of a 

 modern belt. 

 Heal ^^^^ landscape, or that which my art 



Landscape. pj-Qf^gges to improvc, is not always ca- 

 pable of being represented on paper or 

 canvas; for although the rules for good 

 natural landscape may be found in the 

 best painter's works, in which 



<' , we ne'er shall find 



Dull uniformity, contrivance quaint. 

 Or labour'd littleness ; but contrasts broad. 

 And careless lines, whose undulating forms 

 Play through tlie varied canvasj" mason. 



