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The colour of the trumpet is that of brafs — the fmell alfo that 

 of brafs ; for they left on the fingers a very difagreeable odour not 

 eafily or quickly removed. 



Their antiquity appears from the peculiarity of the metallic 

 composition, which is different from any of the modern times ; 

 and from the parts being joined entirely by rivets, evidently before 

 the art of foldering was known ; and from the ornaments about the 

 entire, I think it is plain that they muft have appertained to a 

 nation not in a ftate of barbarifm. Not being an antiquarian, I do 

 not venture to fay more. When I faw them they were not fuffi- 

 ciently in repair or tight to produce found ; but one of them had 

 been made by an artirt, in the vulgar expreffion, wind-tight, and 

 founded by a trumpeter belonging to the 23d regiment of dra- 

 croons, and, as 1 was informed, produced a tremendous found, 

 which could be heard for miles; by the defcription I fhould con- 

 ceive fomewhat refembling that moft terrific of all founds which 

 I have heard, according' to my fancy, that of the Oriental Gong. 



The form of thefe iafirumcnts evidently ranks rather under the 

 Cornu than the Tuba ; thofc defcribed and depided by Dodor 

 Molvneux, in his Natural Hiftory of Ireland, and by a learned 

 member and great antiquarian. General Vallancey, in the fourth 

 volume of the Colledanea, are of an entirely different conftrudion. 

 I conjedure this to be the Dudag or Skeh Trumpet of brafs men- 

 tioned by Genera) Vallancey. 



