Chapter 14. On the Choice of Landscapes, as appropriated to
different Parts of the Day.

It is from the contraft of light and shadow that all natural ob-
jects derive their varying tints and beauty. The morning fun
is in these respects, particularly favourable to the viewing of
large maffes of foreft trees, projecting rocks, mountains, and
deep vallies. These objects acquire an additional relief by the
play of the light upon them, and by the long shadows projected
by them.

The brightness of the fun at noon, on the contrary, is suitable
to detached objects, and of fmall extent, as to rapid waters, or
to ornamental buildings, that the eye may not be fatigued and
dazzled by the glare of too wide an expanfe of reflected light.

The calm freshness of the evening, fuch as Claude Lorrain
has finely expreffed, is adapted to an extenfive country, to
groves through which the light penetrates, to spacious meadows,
and still waters which reflect the neighbouring objects; to dif-
tant views softened by the intervening air: and these are
heightened by the infinite variety of foft tints, which the sky
and the diftant parts of the landscape at this time more parti-
cularly exhibit.

In the 15th chapter, the Author, with great philofophical skill,
fhews the power of landfcapes over our fenfes, and, through
their intervention, over the foul; and he particularly exempli-
fies his theory by a pleafing and animated defcription of a scene
of the romantic caft, applicable to the neighbourhood of the
Alps; where this analogy between physical and moral impres-
fions is felt in its greateít force.

In the 16th and laft chapter, the Author, who unites the qua-
lities of an ufeful and good citizen with thofe of a man of taste,
defcribes the means of combining pleafure with utility, in the
general difpofition of grounds.

To this end he propofes feveral ideas, the refult of his obser-
vation, during many years, in France as well as in other parts
of Europe; relative to the improvement of agriculture, to the
increafing the breed of cattle, and, above all, to the health and
comfort of the inhabitants of the country. The principal points
here confidered, are the advantage of placing the dwelling of the
cultivator in the middle of his grounds; the divifion and ex-
change of lands; the price of corn, and of labour; the fize of
farms; and the neceffity of inclosing.

The whole of this little treatife is written with fo much
knowledge of the fubject, fo much tafte and fenfibility, and
breathes fuch a fpirit of humanity; that it will undoubtedly
be received by the Public as a most agreeable and instructive
work.

N. B. To find any particular Book, or Pamphlet, see the
Table of Contents, prefixed to the Volume.

A

A.

BERDEEN, account of the
late great advances of that
town, in trade and commerce,
186.
AGRICULTURE. See FARMING.
not repugnant to
the culture of manufactures and
commerce, 185.

AIR, nitrous, various obfervations
and experiments relative to, 61.
See DANIEL.

See DISEASES.
AIR-PUMPS, experiments on, 451.
ALLUM, the plume fort, natu-
rally formed in the subterraneous
galleries of Milo, 491. Found
alfo in other places, ib.
AMERICA, her revolt from Great
Britain diffimilar to that of
the United Provinces from Spain,
543.
ANGINA MUCOSA, account of that
difeafe, 234.
ANNUITIES, value of, deduced

from general principles, 464.
ARENA, Abbé, his differtations

on light, comets, &c. 300.
ARSENIC, and other poisons, re-
medies againft, 503.
ASTRONOMY, fingular monuments
of, in the East-Indies, 458.
AYIN AKBARY, a defcription of
the Indian empire, 342.
APP, Rev. Vol. Iviii.

B.

BAGAVADAM, one of the facred
books of the Indians, observa-
tions concerning, 540.
BARKER, Sir Robert, his account
of the immenfe obfervatory of
the Bramins, at Banares, 458.
BAROMETER, applied to the mea-
furing the heights of mountains,
See
and the depth of mines.
DE Luc. See SHUCKBURG.
See Roy.
BASTARD, Mr. his method of

raifing pine apples in water, 463.
BEAUTY, of the human face, de-

fined, and analysed, 445.
BEES, difcoveries relative to the
fex and propagation of, 1. Beft
methods of cultivating this ufe-
ful infect, 54. Attention to,
recommended, 55.

BEWLY, Mr. his experiments re-
lative to fixed air, &c. 68.
BIBLIOTHECA Critica, 487.
BIOGRAPHIE Kayfer Carl. des
Sechften, &c. 301.
BITAUBE, his memoir on national

Bossu's travels into North Ame- COTHENIUS, M. his memoir con-

FALETTI, Father, his differtation

on the human mind, 299.
FARMING, various obfervations re-
lating to improvements in, 45,

54, 95.
FARMS, opinions relative to the
fize and rents of, 101. Leafes
of, what fort to be preferred,
105. Pernicious confequer.ces
of great farmis, 208.