A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. iiSl 



Sir John Hawkins,* fays, that in his time 

 there was but one perfbn, in the whole 

 principality that could play on it, and 

 this was a John Morgan, of New- 

 borough, in the I He of Anglefea, then 

 near fixty years of age. I however met 

 by chance with a perfon living at Caer- 

 narvon, who played to me feveral of the 

 national tunes, upon this mliruinent. 



It is in it's general conflruclion upon 

 the fame principle as the violin. -f It's 



* Hiftory of Mufic, II. 275. 



* It's name is defcriptive of it's bellying form, as it im- 

 plies any protuberance, fucji as a flalk, a box, sad the like ; 

 thus Growth Ha/w, is a fait box. 



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