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growth, there is a comparative roughness 

 and intricacy, which, unless counteracted 

 by great skill in the improver, will always 

 prevent absolute monotony: yet the dif- 

 ference between those which appear plant- 

 ed or cleared for the purpose of beauty, 

 with the ground made perfectly smooth 

 about them, and those which are wild and 

 uncleared, with the ground of the same 

 character, is very apparent. Take, for in- 

 stance, any open grove, where the trees\, 

 though neither in rows nor at equal dis- 

 tances, are detached from each other, and 

 cleared from all underwood ; the turf on 

 which they stand smooth and level; and 

 their stems distinctly seen. Such a grove, 

 of full-grown flourishing trees, that have 

 bad room to extend their heads and 

 branches, is deservedly called beautiful ; and 

 if a gravel road winds easily through it, 

 the whole will be in character. But how 

 different is the scenery in forests! whoever 

 has been among them, and has attentively 

 observed the character of those parts, 

 where wild tangled thickets open into 



