PREFACE. 



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naraented kind, I have in the second chap- 

 ter compared together two real scenes ; the 

 one, in its picturesque, unimproved state ; 

 the other, when dressed and improved ac- 

 cording to the present fashion. The pictu- 

 resque circumstances detailed in this scene, 

 very naturally lead me in the third chapter, 

 to investigate their general causes and ef- 

 fects ; and in that, and in the six following 

 chapters, I have traced them, as far as my 

 observation would enable me, through all 

 the works of art and of nature. 



This part, the most curious and interest- 

 ing to a speculative mind, will be least so 

 to those, who think only of what has a di- 

 rect and immediate reference to the ar- 

 rangement of scenery : that, indeed, it has 

 not ; but it is a discussion well calculated 

 to give jast and enlarged ideas, of what is 

 of no slight importance— the general cha- 

 racter of each place, and the particular 



