114 - On Oriental Bezoars. 
not impartial ; and it may be fairly supposed that he it 
tended to influence those “who to the fascination of a name 
surrender judgement hood- winked.” 
Tam unacquainted with the Doctor’s reasons for giving 
the term whimsical as a translation of bello. He goes on 
to say, ‘* The author (Eximino) has certainly with shrewd- 
ness and accuracy started several difhcultics, and pointed 
out’ imperfections i in, the theory and practice of music, as 
well as in the particular theories of Tartim.and Rameau.’ 
vol.iv. Dr. Matthew Young also, in his Inquiry into, the 
Phenomena of Sounds and Musical Strings, refers to. Exi- 
meno, and calls this work of his, Delle Origine e delle Re- 
gole della Musica, au excellent and admirable treatise. 
But what has all this to do with the subject of tuning *— 
I should not have turned, from the author’s thonghts 10 
search into his general character, if Mr. Smyth had not 
led the way, and ‘yendered it on my part necessary, 
[t was my intention to offer a few remarks on Mr. 
Marsh’s Harmonies, (1810.) and on the utility and appli- 
cation of the term wolf; but.on a second consideration, 
they do not appear to me of sufficient importance for in- 
sertion in the Philosophical Magazine. 
A. MERRICK. 
XXL. On Oriental Bexoars. By M. BuntHouer*. 
Pizzbins, according to Kempfer, were so dear even in 
Persia, that he did not t think a real one ever came to Europe: 
most of those which are brought are artificial, and some are 
formed of smail fragments of real bezoar joined together by 
some artful process. [was fortunate enough to examine 
these concretions under circumstances which admit of no 
doubt as to their being genuine. Among the presents sent 
to the emperor Napoleon, by the king of Persia, were three 
hezoars, which were given to me for ‘the purpose of being 
analysed. The following was the result of my experiments. 
These bezoars were di ake -ereen externally, and brown in- 
ternally + they were of an oval form, and had a very smooth 
surface; they were formed of irregular concentric layers : 
within one of them were found some bits of straw and other 
vegetable substances, which formed as it were an oval nu- 
cleus, a little séparatcd from the external envclope which was 
nearly two centimetres (42, inc.) thick : a0 ee acom-~ 
* Mem. d’Arcucil, tome ii. p. 448. 
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