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you open your battery again, with an illuftra- 

 tion ftill more degrading to the art than that 

 of the favages: I need not put our readers 

 in mind of it ; they will immediately recollect 

 the comparifon between the love of pictures, 

 and of tobacco. You clofe the whole argu- 

 ment (in which, after the two firft pages, 

 not a fyllable is faid in favour of an art to 

 which you are fo much indebted) with an 

 account of its deficiencies, in not being able 

 to reprefent a gravel walk, a fragrant fhrub- 

 bery, an extenfive profpe6l, or a view down 

 a fteep hill; to which catalogue may be 

 added continual motion. 



I muft fay, that, according to your repre- 

 fentation of the art of painting, its powers 

 and effects, you, as an improver, have totally 

 thrown away your time in ftudying what 

 the higher artifts have done in their pictures 

 and drawings ; and ftill more fo, if it be con- 

 fidered, that the pi6turefque is to be ba- 

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