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DISTANT SCENERY. 



cottage with the smoke curhng amid the surrounding trees, while 

 the village and its towering steeple on the border of the stream, 

 with its lively reflections — the bridge, the mill, or the stately ruin, 

 each offer beauties that may be heightened by a judicious appro- 

 priation of the surrounding scenery, over or through which they 

 may be seen from the residence ; and the selection of appropriate 

 character in the breaks and foliage of trees to increase these beauties, 

 is the province of the Landscape Gardener. 



" At length the finished garden to the view 

 Its vistas opens, and its alleys green. 

 Snatch 'd through the verdant maze, the hurried eye 

 Distracted wanders : now the bowery walk 

 Of covert close, where scarce a speck of day 

 Falls on the lengthened gloom, protracted sweeps ; 

 Now meets the bending sky; the river now 

 Dimpling along, the breezy-rufiled lake, 

 The forest darkening round, the glittering spire. 

 The ethereal mountain, and the distant main.'" 



