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This effect I remember observing in a 

 very striking degree many years ago, on 

 entering Herefordshire when the fruit trees 

 were in blossom: my expectation was much 

 raised, for I had heard that at the time of 

 the blow, the whole country from the 

 Malvern hills looked like a garden. Lly 

 disappointment was nearly equal to my 

 expectation; the country answered to the 

 description; it did look like a garden, but 

 it made a scattered discordant landscape; 

 the blossoms, so beautiful on a near view, 

 when the different shades and gradations 

 of their colours are distinguished, seemed 

 to have lost all their richness and variety ; 



by bringing objects too near the eye, disturbs the aerial 

 perspective and the gradation of distance. On this sub* 

 ject I must beg leave to refer the reader to some remarks 

 by Mr. Lock, in Mr Gilpin's Tourdowu the Wye, page97, 

 which I should have inserted here, were not the book in 

 every person's hands. 



It is impossible to read these remarks, without regretting 

 that the observations of a mind so capable of enlightening 

 the public, should be withheld from it ; a regret which 

 Shose who have enjoyed the pleasure and advantage of 

 Mr. Lock's conversation, feel in a much higher degree. 



