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marked that picturefquenefs may be tranf- 

 ferred — not to rocks, deep glens, and ca- 

 verns ; to cafcades, to rivers dafhing among 

 ftones, to wild foreft glades, and thickets 

 — but to the ragged gipfey; with whom 

 £not with the rocks, cafcades, &c.] you 

 obferve that the wild afs, the Pomeranian 

 dog, the fhaggy goat, are more in har- 

 mony than the fleek-coated horfe, &c. 

 The natural thing was to fhew that thefe 

 wild animals were in harmony with wild 

 fcenery; no — for fear of alluding to what 

 might endanger the caufe, they are made 

 in harmony with the gipfey; not with thofe 

 land/capes in which both they and the 

 gipfey would be the raoft proper figures. 



You have, in this place, fomewhat far- 

 caftically alluded to an obfervation in my 

 Effay, namely, " that the effect of deer in 

 " groups is apt to be meagre and fpot- 

 " ty."* This obfervation (which I be- 



* ElTay on the Piclurefque, page 63. 



lieve 



