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Tie “manner in which it was formed was very rude. It 
feems to have been originally a. folid piece, which in that 
ftate was fplit from end to end; each of the pieces into 
which it was thus divided was then awkwardly hollowed or 
grooved at the infide, femicircularly, and tapering, in fuch a 
manner that when joined again, thefe grooves, applying to each 
other, formed a circular and conical perforation through the 
whole length, refembling that of a trumpet or horn. To fe- 
cure the pieces in this pofition they were bound together on 
the outfide by a long fillet of thin brafs, about an inch and 
quarter broad, lapped round them. in a fpiral, from one end 
to the other, with upwards of an inch of interval between the 
rolls, and faftened to the wood with fmall brafs nails. The 
ends were fecured by circular plates, probably of the fame metal, 
as appears from marks ftill remaining on the furface of the 
wood, thefe pieces having been loft. 
Tuis brafs filletting deferves fome attention :—Its breadth is 
not equal throughout, being in fome parts a third greater than 
in others ; its edges, though in general nearly ftraight, are not 
fo evenly defined as to give the idea of its having been cut 
from a broader piece of fheet brafs, nor do they bear any 
marks of having been dreffed or touched by any kind of tool 
or inftrument of grinding; they exhibit, on the contrary, in 
fome parts, that fort of lightly undulating and rounded outline 
on both fides, that might naturally be produced by flattening 
or extending a rod or piece of brafs fufficient to give this 
breadth of plate and no more: this feems not to have been 
done 
