PART II. 



H AVING now examined the chief qua* 

 lities that in such various ways render 

 objects interesting; having shewn how 

 much the beauty, spirit, and effect of land- 

 scape, real or imitated, depend upon a 

 just degree of variety and intricacy, on a 

 due mixture of rough and smooth in the 

 surface, and of w a rm and cool in the tints ; 

 having shewn tq , that the general princi- 

 ples of iffiprSYiSS are in reality the same as 

 those of painting.— I shall next inquire how 

 far the principles of the last-mentioned art 

 (clearly 'the best qualified to improve and 

 refine our idea s f nature) have been at- 

 tended to by improvers: how far also 



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