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470.

OF REPRESENTING WIND.

The effect of wind on trees (470-473).In representing wind, besides the bending of the boughs and the reversing of their leaves towards the quarter whence the wind comes, you should also represent them amid clouds of fine dust mingled with the troubled air.


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