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all parts of nature to be itudied indifcri- 

 minately? No one will make fuch an 

 aflertion. But whence do thefe various 

 combinations arife, of trees fo happily 

 grouped and connected with ground, 

 buildings, and water; of open lawns, of 

 clofer glades, and fkirtings, in planting 

 and forming which no art has been em- 

 ployed ? As it cannot be from defign, it 

 mult be from accident. Of thefe lucky 

 accidents painters have made the greateft 

 ufe; wherever they meet with them 

 they eagerly trace them in their fketch- 

 book; thefe they ftudy, arrange, and 

 combine in a thoufand different ways; 

 thefe are the ftores whence their greater 

 compofitions are afterwards formed. But 

 of thefe accidents (if we may judge from 

 their works) improvers have as yet made 

 but little ufe. 



Again, wherever art interferes, the ef- 

 fect of thefe beautiful and ftriking acci- 

 d 4 dents 



