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C H A P T E R II
IT is in the arrangement and manage-
ment of trees, that the great art of im-
provement coniifts : earth is too cumbrous
and lumpifh for man to contend much
with, and its effefts when worked upon, are
ftat and dead like its nature. But trees,
detaching themfelves at once from the fur-
face, and riftng boldiy into the air, have
a more lively and immediate effedt on the
eye *. They alone, form a canopy over
us,
* I have generally obferved, that perfons not conver-
fant in pidtures and drav/ings, are in travelling much
more pleafed with diftant, than with near objects, and that
not from curioiity alone; and yet the variety, and quick
fucceffion of piftures, depends infinitely more on the lat-
ter.
C H A P T E R II
IT is in the arrangement and manage-
ment of trees, that the great art of im-
provement coniifts : earth is too cumbrous
and lumpifh for man to contend much
with, and its effefts when worked upon, are
ftat and dead like its nature. But trees,
detaching themfelves at once from the fur-
face, and riftng boldiy into the air, have
a more lively and immediate effedt on the
eye *. They alone, form a canopy over
us,
* I have generally obferved, that perfons not conver-
fant in pidtures and drav/ings, are in travelling much
more pleafed with diftant, than with near objects, and that
not from curioiity alone; and yet the variety, and quick
fucceffion of piftures, depends infinitely more on the lat-
ter.