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original genius. We are never at a lofs to apprehend 

 his meaning, or follow the train of incidents ; every 

 -thing is fet in a full, a dillinft, and niarked point of 

 view. He is the reverfe of what is faid of Thucydides ; 

 he dcliglit3 to tell of what is agreeable and pleafant; he 

 has more of the airinefs and gaiety of Anacreon, thaa 

 of the ardent and ferious fenfibility of Tacitus. 



^ new and fimple Mode of Mufical Notation. 

 If to fimplify an art, be to improve it, I doubt not 

 but the following very fimple mode of mufical notation, 

 will be deemed a very effential improvement. It pof- 

 feffes all the precifion and accuracy of the mode of 

 mufical notation now in ufe, with the additional recom- 

 mendation of admitting of being com prefiTed into much 

 fma ler compafs, and of being afforded at a price greatly 

 inferior to that which mufic can be fold for at prefent. 

 By this method, a fmall pocket volume, that could be 

 afforded for a few (hillings, might contain as much 

 mufic, as can at prefent be contained in a bulky folio, 

 which cofls feveral guineas. 



The contrivance merits applaufe on account of its 

 utility, rather than its ingenuity ; it is, indeed, fo fim- 

 ple, and fo obvious, that it only excites aftonilhment 

 it fliould not have been adopted long ago. 



In mufical notation, two particulars mufl be fepa- 

 rately adverted to, viz. tone and time. By the mode 

 of notation now in ufe, the tones are denoted by certain 

 dots or marks being placed on or between lines drawn 

 acrofs the paper for that purpofe, as every one knows. 

 Thefe tones, confidered as afcending or defcending, 

 have been divided into oftaves, each cdave confifling 

 of feven notes, denoted by the letters A B C D E F G, 

 HS in the following fcale of mufic. 



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