Excerpt from Remarks on Forest Scenery and Other Woodland Views, Vol. 1 of 2 Availing ourselves of the licence which the desultory nature of our task has allowed us, we have not scrupled to introduce whatever we thought might add to the value or the interest of these volumes: it will therefore be found. That they contain many scientific fragments, and also some anecdotes, historical and otherwise, which, it is humbly hoped, will rather tend to lighten than encumber their pages. Whilst we have retained the most essential of Mr Gilpin's delineations, we have deemed it advisable to change, or to improve, several of them. A number of illustrations have been added from original sketches, by Mr Kidd and Mr Forbes, both of them celebrated artists in their respective departments, whose labours, we trust, will be found to have considerably improved the value of Mr Gilpin's book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.