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his art, (by means of broken tints — of 

 breadth and effect of light and fhade, — by 

 his management of the iky, &c.) he may 

 contrive in reprefenting fuch a view, to dif- 

 guife, or compenfate its original defect. 

 With regard to profpects, they are for the 

 moft part taken from the higheft and openeft 

 part of a hill, where there is the leaft ob- 

 ftruction, and confequently where there is 

 feldom either fore-ground, or Tecond dif- 

 tance. On that account they do not make 

 good landscapes; and on that circumftance, 

 as I conceive, is founded the principal dis- 

 tinction, not merely between a landfcape 

 and a profpect, but generally between what 

 is, and is not proper for a picture in point of 

 compofition. Any view that is unbroken, 

 unvaried, undivided by any objects in the 

 nearer parts, whether it be from a mountain 

 or a plain, is, generally fpeaking, ill fuited to 

 the painter. 



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