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paffion.* If I do defpife profpecls, I am 

 conftantly acting againft my inclination by 

 climbing up, not only high hills, but towers 

 and churches ; certainly not for the painter's 

 landfcape. In my own place I have three 

 diftincl profpecls, — bird's-eye views feen 

 from high hills — of which I am not a little 

 proud, and to which I carry all my guefts of 

 every defcription. If they like nothing elfe 

 in the place, I do not converfe with them on 

 pictures, or landfcape-gardening ; but if they 

 have the affectation I have fometimes been 

 witnefs to, that of holding all profpecls in 

 contempt as unworthy the attention of a 

 man of true tafte, I do not feel very eager 

 to converfe with them on any fubjecl 



A profpecl of mere extent, if that extent 

 be very great, has, without any finking 

 features, a powerful effect on the mind. If 

 to extent you add a richly wooded and cul- 



* Eflay on the Pidurefque, page 179. 



tivated 



