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blow, and to throw themfelves down with a; 

 •exact cadence as in a dancing fchool. They 

 can reprefent fome paflions as well as if they 

 were real- One boy was once reprefenting a 

 very fufpicious man, who was however to be 

 very fubmhTive to his wife ; and another a 

 wife who was fomewhat of a coquette, yet knew 

 how tQ make ufe of her power, and was very 

 artful. At firft they came to blows; but when 

 madam began to fob, cry and figh fo that her 

 whole body fhook, the hufband could hardly 

 make her pardon him, though he fell down 

 on his knees feveral times ; and the articles 

 of peace feemed to be very difadvantageous to 

 him. The mufical jnftruments ufual on this 

 occafion are firft a couple of pieces of wood 

 half a foot long, tied together at one end, and 

 put acrofs the thumb ; which when fhaken, 

 make a clattering noife like caflanets. Befides 

 thefe they have little drums, great and fmall 

 kettle drums, gungungs or round brafs ba- 

 fons like frying pans, flutes, guittars, metal 

 hautboys, (trait horns, and an instrument which 

 I lent over formerly, and which confifls of a 

 hemifphere to which thirteen or fourteen pipes 

 are applied, catching the air blown into the 

 cavity by valves. If the padoral flute of Pan, 

 \vas not made in this manner, I do not know 



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