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judgment with which they are placed, and 

 partly upon the owner's turn of mind. 

 Whoever prefers, in all cases, a mere pro- 

 spect (and in that light every unbroken 

 view may be looked upon) to a prospect of 

 which the accompaniments had been, or 

 seemed to have been, arranged by^ a great 

 painter, will think every thing an obstruc- 

 tion, that prevents him seeing all that it is 

 possible to see in all directions. But he 

 who is convinced that painters, from having 

 most studied them, are the best judges of 

 the combinations and effects of visible 

 objects, will only look upon that as an 

 obstruction, which, if taken away, would 

 not merely let in more of the view, but 

 admit it in a happier manner in point of 

 composition : and whoever has felt the 

 extreme difference between seeing distant 

 objects, as in a panorama, without any 

 foreground, and viewing them under the 

 boughs, and divided by the stems of trees, 

 with some parts half discovered through 

 the branches and foliage, will be very loth 

 to cut down an old tree which produces 



