. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. k from Mercey to the canal we saw the finestand most pictorial effect that has hitherto occurred in the trees in the great wood are extremely dense, in grand opaquemasses, but those on each side the canal, seen obliquely from theopposite side of the Saone, appear to become gradually moreopen, till the most advanced of them stand out is, consequently, a gradual passage from the dense andclose to the open, which is always pleasing and has long beenknown to artists. In the effect of the
. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. k from Mercey to the canal we saw the finestand most pictorial effect that has hitherto occurred in the trees in the great wood are extremely dense, in grand opaquemasses, but those on each side the canal, seen obliquely from theopposite side of the Saone, appear to become gradually moreopen, till the most advanced of them stand out is, consequently, a gradual passage from the dense andclose to the open, which is always pleasing and has long beenknown to artists. In the effect of the 18th of June this wasimitated in the sky, but in reverse, the clouds being dark anddense opposite the dense trees and more open as they approachedthe forest, till behind the open trees the sky was lightly cloudedand coloured like mother-of-pearl. There was consequentlyevery appearance of an intentional and most felicitous arrange-ment of dark opposing masses and a gradual opening of both at o a a S • - •/??? l.:, -^U:•:??? „r ... ??.*?• . A. • ..,. I - ?>? - - *??: - ^?4 i5.*, -f^i
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