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that of its accompaniments; so in the 

 others, a striking effect is produced by their 

 disproportion. These last are found in 

 forests and in woody Commons, where the 

 ground is bold and unequal. In such 

 places it often happens that a high broken 

 bank enriched with wild vegetation, some- 

 times with a single tree upon it, sometimes 

 with a group of them, hangs over a small 

 pool:* in a scene of that kind, the very 

 circumstance of the smallness of the water 

 gives a consequence to the objects imme- 

 diately round it, which a larger expanse 

 would diminish. Another great source of 

 effect arises from the large mass of shadow, 

 which from the overhanging bank and 

 trees, is reflected in so small a mirror ; and 



*This style of scenery is very poetically aud characteris- 

 tically described by Mr. Mason in the first book of his 

 English Garden : 



Nature here 

 Has with her living colours forra'd a scene 

 Which Ruysdal best might rival — crystal lakes, 

 O'er which the giant oak, himself a grove, 

 Flings his romantic branches, and beholds 

 His reverend image in the expanse below. 

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