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perature. of the air, fill the mind with melancholy, and 

 incline it to ferious reflections. 



Such is the common fcenery of the Chinefe Gardens, 

 where the ground has no ftriking tendency to any par- 

 ticular character. But where it is more ftrongly marked^ 

 their artifts never fail to improve upon its Angularities ; 

 their aim is to excite a great variety of paflions in the mind 

 of the fptctator; and the fertility of their imaginations, 

 always upon the ftretch in fearch of novelty, furnifhes 

 them with a thou f and artifices to accompliili that aim. 



The fcenes which I have hitherto defcribed, are chiefly 

 of the pleafing kind: but the Chinefe Gardeners have many 

 forts, which they employ as circumftances vary ; all which 

 they range in three feparate claffes; and diftinguifh them 

 by the appellations of the pleafing, the terrible, and the 

 furprizing. 



The firft of thefe are compofed of the gayeft and molt 

 perfect productions of the vegetable world ; intermixed 



with 



