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and only howl, like the dogs that are natives of that 

 eoaft, (World Difplayed, Vol. XVII. p. 26.) 



A circumftance not diffimilar to this, and equally 

 curious, is mentioned by Kircherus, de Mufurgia, 

 in, his Chapter de Lulciniis, " That the young 

 nightingales that are hatched under other birds, never 

 fing till they are inftru&ed by the company of other 

 nightingales." And Johnfton affirms, that the night- 

 ingales that vifit Scotland, have not thefame harmony 

 as thole of Italy, (Pennant's Zoology, octavo, p. 255) ; 

 xvhich would lead us to fufpecl that the. fmging of 

 birds, like human mufic, is an artificial language, 

 rather than a natural expreflion of paflion. 



X. Our mufic like our language, is perhaps en- 

 tirely conflituted of artificial tones, which by habit 

 fugged certain agreeable paflions. For the fame 

 combination of notes and tones do not excite devotion, 

 love, or poetic melancholy in a native of Indoftan 

 and of Europe. And C the Highlander has the 

 lame warlike ideas annexed to the found of a bag- 

 pipe (an instrument which an Englilhman derides;, 

 as the Englifhman has to that of a trumpet or fife,*' 

 (Dr. Brown's Union of Poetry and Mufic, p. 58.) 

 So " the mufic of the Turks is very different from 

 the Italian, and the people of Fez and Morocco 

 have again a different kind, which to us appears very 

 rough vaud horrid, but is highly pleafing to them,'* 

 (L* Arte Armoniaca a Giorgio Antoniotto). Hence 

 we fee why the Italian opera does not delight an un- 

 tutored Englifhman; and why thofe, who are unac- 

 cu domed to mufic, are more pleafed with a tune, the 

 Second or third time they hear it, than the firft. 

 For then the fame melodious train of founds excites 

 the melancholy, they had learned from the fong ; or 

 the lame vivid combination of them recalls all the 

 ininhful ideas of the dance and company. 



Even the founds, that were once difagreeable to us, 

 may by habit be affociated with other ideas, fo as to 



become 



