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pictures will illustrate all this. Figures 10, 11 are pictures of 

 natural copses. The former stretches along a field and makes a 



10. A native fence-row. 



lawn of a bit of meadow which lies in front of it. The landscape 

 has become so small and so well defined by this bank of verdure 

 that it has a familiar and personal feeling. The great, bare, 

 open meadows are too 

 ill-defined and too ex- 

 tended to give any do- 

 mestic feehng; but here 

 is a part of the meadow 

 set off into an area 

 that one can compass 

 with his affections. 



These masses in 

 Figs. 10, 11, and 12 

 have their own intrin- 

 sic merits, as well as their office in defining a bit of nature. One 

 is attracted by the freedom of arrangement, the irregularity of 



11. Birds build their nests here. 



