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pictures, not ill accord with any kind of 

 fcenery, and that many of thefe forms 

 have much real beauty, as well as pictu- 

 refque effect; that they have a variety of 

 highly pleafing outlines, flowing, and 

 blending into each other, and giving a 

 foftnefs* to the water they accompany; 

 very different both from the abruptness of 

 clumps, and from the naked hardnefs of 

 artificial rivers. If this be true, much the 

 greater and more confpicuous part of a 

 mere painter s landfcape, might, without 

 impropriety, be allied with, nay, even 

 make a part of a dreffed fcene. What part 

 then of fuch pictures would be out of cha- 

 racter in highly polifhed fcenery? It is in 

 an extended fenfe the fore-ground, or what 

 might be termed the ground-plan of the 

 picture; this often confifts of rough and 

 broken ground, and of other rude objects 



* ElTky on the Picturei'que. page 109. 



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