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character of each part of its scenery. ETe- 

 ry place, and every scene worth observing, 

 must have something of the sublime, the 

 beautiful, or the picturesque; and every 

 man will allow, that he would wish to pre- 

 serve and to heighten, certainly not to 

 w*eaken or destroy, their prevailing charac- 

 ter. The most obvious method of succeed- 

 ing in the one, and of avoiding the other, 

 is by studying their causes and effects ; but 

 to confine that study to scenery only, would, 

 like all confined studies for a particular 

 purpose, tend to contract the mind ; at 

 least when compared with a more compre- 

 hensive view of the subject. I have there- 

 fore endeavoured to take the most enlarged 

 Tiew possible, and to include in it whatever 

 had any relation to the character I was 

 occupied in tracing, or which shewed its 

 distinction from those, which a very su- 

 perior mind, had already investigated ; and 



