to what Extent, and how most readily attainalleP" 9 

 Intervals of'Athalia," as recited by the Speaker. 



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deep with-Ln my breast: No ef-fort could the blow re - pel; — 



I shriek'd, — I faint-ed — and — 1 fell. 



I have now brought my labours to a conclusion ; sustained, 

 throughout the progress of my inquiry, by the well-grounded ex- 

 pectation that a subject of this nature, from its intimate con- 

 nexion with the very structure as well as the delivery of speech, 

 must influence the literature of my country. May, then, the 

 learned guardians of our seminaries employ those faculties with 

 which they are so eminently gifted, for the improvement of our 

 native tongue : and may they never cease to remember — that, 

 although we have excelled our late gigantic adversary both in 

 arms and in arts — his language is yet triumphant. In all 

 political negotiations it continues to supersede our own. 



Henry Upington, 



Appendix on Harmony 

 (to which I have referred in the preceding paper). 



In my former papers on this subject, I have principally ad- 

 dressed myself to the philosopher and mathematician: In this 

 place, then, I shall observe to the musician, that, unless I have 

 taken a very imperfect survey of the question, our present har- 

 monical edifice is founded upon so mauy contradictory proposi- 

 tions, that, view it in what manner we please — wiiethcr philoso- 

 phically, mathematically, logically, or even naturally as we term 

 it, — it is altogether indefensible. Some half a dozen of the most 

 prominent of these proi)ositions, with their deductions, will serve 

 as an example of the whole. 



Prop. 1st. That 2, 4, M, H),&:c. even to infinity, are ecjual to 

 one ; or, in other words, that octaves arc equal to unisons : 



Aui therefore — that, since Nature accompanies every indivi- 

 dual sound by the u|)|)er octave of its fifth, and the nj)per double 

 octave of its major tiiird ; tlic inunediatc third and fifth of the 

 original sound may be substituted in their stead. 



And— that, although in owr fundamental base experiments 



(agreeably 



