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thumb. It's length is about nineteen 

 inches, and in blowing it, the wind 

 founds the tongue of a reed concealed 

 within. The tone that is produced is, 

 confidering the materials of which it is 

 compofed, faid to be very tolerable, and 

 in fome meafure to referable that of an 

 oboe. It is a rural pipe, and faid to be 

 almoft peculiar to the Ifle of Anglefea, 

 where the ihepherds play on it for 

 amufement, whilft employed in tending 

 their flocks. I do not think it is very 

 commonly to be met with, as I never 

 could obtain the light of one, in that 

 Ifland, though I made many enquiries 

 after it. 



The Honourable Daines Barrington 

 conjectures, and with great appearance 

 of probability, that this inftrument ori- 

 ginally gave name to that kind of coun- 

 try dance, called Horn-pipe. It was 



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