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of firs, display, when in health and vigour, 

 the greatest variety of undulating forms in 

 their general outline : all groups of them do 

 the same ; and large continued masses of 

 them mark the inequalities of the ground 

 they stand upon, however broken and 

 abrupt the ground itself may be, by the 

 same graceful undulations. As this is the 

 general character of all scenery where there 

 is much natural wood in a flourishing state, 

 and as trees and woods form the principal 

 outlines in all pleasing scenery, it surely is 

 a sufficient reason for a strong inherent love 

 of undulating lines in the general face of 

 nature. Such a style of scenery, chiefly 

 prevails in situations free from violent 

 winds, and where the fertility of the soil, 

 corresponds with the ideas impressed by 

 the general aspect : but where the country 

 is rocky and barren, and subject to storms 

 and hurricanes, there the forms of the trees, 

 like those of the rocks on which they grow, 

 are usually abrupt and broken ; and ex- 

 hibit marks of sudden violence, or prema- 

 ture decay. 



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