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was partially fringed and crowned with fuch 

 plants as are moft admired for beauty of 

 leaves and flowers; and that amidft them, 

 fmooth ftones of different forms and fizes, 

 but their furface fometimes varied and foft- 

 ened by the rich velvet of mofTes, mixed their 

 mellow and brilliant tints with thofe of the 

 flowers, and the general hue of vegetation ; 

 while the whole was rendered more foft and 

 enchanting by the clear mirror that reflected 

 them. 



After having viewed fuch a fcene, let him 

 return at once to the former one; would 

 he then give it the fame epithet he did be- 

 fore i I think he would fenfibly feel, that 

 the character of each was as diflindt as their 

 caufes, and that a fcene compofed almoft 

 entirely of obje6ts, rough, rugged, abrupt, 

 and angular, with various marks of age and 

 decay, and without one frefh and tender 

 colour, could never be clafled with another 



fcene, 



