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it enables the artift to ftrengthen the character of every 

 compofition; to encreafe the tranquility of the quiet 

 fcenc; to give gloom to the melancholy, gaiety to the 

 pleaiing, fublimity to the great, and horror to the 

 terrible. 



They obferve, that the different aquatic fports of row- 

 ing, failing, fwimming, fifhing, hunting and combating, 

 are an inexhauftible fund of amufement; that the birds 

 and fifties, inhabitants of the water, are highly enter- 

 taining, efpecially to naturalifls ; and that the boats and 

 vefTels which appear upon its bofom, fometimes furioufly 

 impelled by tempefts, at others gently gliding over the 

 fmooth furface, form, by their combinations, a thoufand 

 momentary varied pictures, that animate and embellim 

 every profpect. They compare a clear lake, in a calm 

 funny day, to a rich piece of painting, upon which the 

 circumambient objects are reprefented in the higheft per- 

 fection; and fay, it is like an aperture in the world, 

 through which you fee another world, another fun, and 



other Ikies. 



They 



