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masses, no meagre and frittered patches. 

 As materials for landscape, they noticed, 

 and often sketched, wherever they met with 

 them, the happiest groups, whether of trees 

 standing alone, or mixed with thickets and 

 underwood ; observing the manner in which 

 they accorded with and displayed the cha- 

 racter of the ground, and produced intri- 

 cacy, variety, and connection. All that 

 has j ust been mentioned, is as much an object 

 of study to the improver, as to the painter : 

 the former, indeed, though in some parts he 

 may preserve the appearance of wildness 

 and of neglect, in others must soften it, 

 and in others again exchange it for the 

 highest degree of neatness : but there is no 

 part where a connection between the dif- 

 ferent objects is not required, or where a 

 just degree of intricacy and enrichment 

 would interfere with neatness. Every pro- 

 fessor, from Kent nearly down to the pre- 

 sent time, has proceeded on directly oppo- 

 site principles : the first impression received 

 from a place where one of them has been 

 employed, is that of general bareness, and 



