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tions ; they would then exadlly anfwer to
that admirable defcription of Mr. Mafon :
“ The Scottifh fxr
In murky file rears his inglorious head
And blots the fair horizon.”
Nothing can be more accurately, or more
fbrcibly exprelfed, or raife a jufter image
in the mind. Every thick unbroken mafe
of black (elpecially when it can be com-
pared with fofter tints) is a blot; and has
the fame eftecr on the horizon in nature,
as if a dab of ink were thrown upon that
of a Claude. This, however, is viewing
it in its mod; favourable ftate, when at
leafl it anfwers the purpofe of a fcreen,
though a heavy one; but it happens full as
often, that the outer boup;hs do not reach
above half way down; and then, befides
the long, black, even line which cuts the
horizon at the top, there is at bottom a
ftreak of glaring light that pierces every
where
tions ; they would then exadlly anfwer to
that admirable defcription of Mr. Mafon :
“ The Scottifh fxr
In murky file rears his inglorious head
And blots the fair horizon.”
Nothing can be more accurately, or more
fbrcibly exprelfed, or raife a jufter image
in the mind. Every thick unbroken mafe
of black (elpecially when it can be com-
pared with fofter tints) is a blot; and has
the fame eftecr on the horizon in nature,
as if a dab of ink were thrown upon that
of a Claude. This, however, is viewing
it in its mod; favourable ftate, when at
leafl it anfwers the purpofe of a fcreen,
though a heavy one; but it happens full as
often, that the outer boup;hs do not reach
above half way down; and then, befides
the long, black, even line which cuts the
horizon at the top, there is at bottom a
ftreak of glaring light that pierces every
where