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essential qualities of beauty ;* and whoever, 

 like Mr. Brown, deprives beauty of them, 

 leaves a mere caput mortuum : and he, who, 

 also like him, destroys, or neglects con- 

 nection, leaves out the most essential requi- 

 site in every style of scenery. It may like- 

 wise be observed, that the circumstances 

 which produce variety and intricacy (such 

 for instance as the different accompani- 

 ments of natural rivers) serve likewise to 

 produce connection ; and with connection, 

 that union and harmony, without which, 

 beauty in landscape cannot exist. 



But, it may be said, if this mixture of 

 comparative roughness and abruptness may 

 in some cases (as in the instance just given 

 of a wooded river) conduce more to the 

 beautiful, than smoothness and flowing lines 

 alone, what would then be the distinction 

 between such a river, and a picturesque one? 

 J must begin by repeating what I have be- 



* Not qf a sudden and abrupt kind. I have endeavoured 

 in a fprmer part to explain the difference between beautiful 

 and picturesque intricacy. 



