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them. It is of great importance to be 
able to judge of the intermediate shades 
or tints between colours, and find out 
their component parts, as it enables us 
correctly to describe the colour of any 
object whatever. — 
Werner's plan for describing the tints, 
or shades between colours, is as follows : 
«When one colour approaches slightly to 
another, it is said to incline towards it; 
when it stands in the middle between 
two colours, it is said to be intermediate; 
when, on the contrary, it evidently ap- | 
proaches very near to one of the colours, 
it is said to fall, or pass, into it.” In this 
