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Show strangely affected by seeing the shore fro a moving ship, from a balloon, or throug the tints of an unusua sky & The leas change in our point of view, gives the whol world a pictorial air. A man wh seldo rides, needs only to get into a coach an traverse his own town, to turn the stree into a puppet-show. The men, the women -talking, running, bartering, fighting, th earnes mechanic th lounger th beggar, the boys, the dogs, are unrealize at once, or, at least, wholly detached fro al relation to the observer apparent ne an seen a not substantial beings &+ Wha thought are suggeste by seeing face of country quite familiar, in the rapi movemen th mos o th wonte rail-roa objects car Nay (make a ver slight change in the point of vision,) pleas us most I a camer obscura, th butch er's cart, and the figure of one of our ow family amus us. So a portrait of a well known face gratifies us. Turn the eyes upside down, by looking at the landscap through your legs, and how agreeable i the picture, though you have seen it an time these twenty years In these cases, by mechanical means, i 6 |
