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vol.1 p.90
gives a deeper tinge; and unites the whole in one great
effect.
It is an agreeable amusement to attend these vast shadows in
their slow, and solemn march over the mountains - to
observe, how the morning sun sheds only a faint catching
light upon the summits of the hills, through one general
mass of hazy shade - in a few hours how all this confusion
is dissipated - how the lights and shades begin to break,
and separate, and take their form and breadth - how deep and
determined the shadows are at noon - how fugitive and
uncertain, as the sun declines; till it's fires, glowing in
the west, light up a new radiance through the landscape; and
spread over it, instead of sober light and shade, all the
colours of nature, in one bright, momentary gleam.
It is equally amusing to observe the various shapes, which
mountains assume through all this variety of illumination;
rocks, knolls, and promontories, taking new forms;
appearing, and disappearing, as the sun veers round;
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