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mit to terms, and to admit of an augmentation of tri- 
bute. Inthe courfe of thefe tranfadtions, the ruin of the 
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ee cruel reftriétion a their ‘taining tom the ew of 
fuch an affion broke through this .unjuft prohibi- 
tion: the confequences, w con. vifible, brought 
down te ee vengeance upon sacl head of r and 
et far was publicly executed ; his. venerab. 
“ifoned and probably affulinated, and ie property 
cf te le race syereats d. A decree was even. made, 
pain of death, all mention of the names or 
ps oo Jt the Barmacides ; but a grateful old man, who ven-. 
iia nly to ey) it, obtained his pardon and a remune- 
m the c . Haroun was, as has been obferved,. 
the wi richeft and ee otent fovereign of his time; he is faid 
to have fent a fplendid embafly to Charlemagne; which, m 
among other prefents, brought a magnificent tent, a:.water- 
clock, an elephant and the keys of the holy fepulchre at 
Jerufalem, denoting permiffion for European . s to 
vilit it. © The principal refidence of this caliph was.a favourite 
palace at Racta on the Euphrates. After his. return from 
a rebel who taken: up 
been, ed by his troo ge of 
. ps, and who dared, in a paflage of 
the Reg to threaten the inattentive defpot with the Judge 
of. God.and pofterity. The monarch regain 
fortunes ordered full reilitution to be made 
bom, vols, ix. x. Univer. 
ys EAROWLY, in Geography, a town of Hindootan in 
ae eel i 2 «IW of Coe of 
AK, a mufic {trument of t kind, being. 
tie ee eae ane Ringe pright between the leg of 
aie after him, will have. the harp to 
_ Apia € er ie ve: 
have taken j its name fond: pane of Lig who 
bom 
were fuy id the fir. that invented it. 
_ derives the wor 
German 
pages bh se 
i-. both hands, 
aoe 
-_drawing,, b 
to her. ‘Gib. 
HARP. 
they fay it was borrowed by other nations. Menage, &c: 
rd from the Latin —, and that from the 
sor . Others bring it the Latin 
carpo, becaui e touche or seb with the fingers. Dr. 
fecond in that of the pare The En nei ret 
who wrote the life of St. Dunftan, and who lived with him in _ 
the roth century, fays, cap. ii. n. 12. “ Sumpfit fecum ex more 
citharam fuam, quam patérna lingua hearpam vocamus al 
$ whieh j intimates the word to be Anglo-Saxon. 
There is fome diverfity in the ftruéture of harps. _ 
called ro triple harp has ninety-feven ftrings or chords, 
three rows, extending from double C in the bafe, to double 
G in alt, w e five heir, Se idle row is for 
the femitones, and he's y 
On the bafe ay sie played wih ee ain hand there 
the upper 
The harp, within the laft forty years, has been in fome 
o degree improved, by the addition 4 eight ftrings to the 
unifon, viz. from E to double F in 
nftrument is ftruck with oa ‘finger and thumb of 
Its mufic is much like that of the fpinet, ~ its 
ftrings going from femitone to femitone ; whence fome 
it - inverte 
t is an of a much greater degree of perfection than’. 
The editor of the lat folio edition of Chambers’s 
Cyclopedia is: indebted to Mr. Evans, a very celebrated’ 
performer on this ‘tna, for the above account of the’ 
ftru€ture and compafs: of the Welfh harp. King David is’ 
ainted with a harp in his hands; but we have no’ 
in all anti uity,. that. the Hebrew harp 
aceite ; are bath of oni very different ra 
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our harp, .and only confi of three or four ftrings: A 
authors agree that our harp is very ne from the lyre, 
cithara, or barbiton, * abed among the Rom 
Sa cdetie lib. vii. carm. 8. wiahalberabi _ it was an ine: 
ftrument of the barbarians. 
“ rhisapy oa? lyra, plaudat tibi barbarus fad 
Gree 2 Aichiliiacha > cro otta itanna canat. 
The crotta is the crwth Latinized, im all probability an-* 
original Britith = ‘rsa inftrument;.as it is never mentioned 
in any claflical au 
The bee. is oe the moft ancient inftrument of which 
we know the ufe. 
The peers harp is-an seryperrer of ig a beautiful 
y Mr.. Bruce, and a inferted in 
— 8 Hitkory of Mulic, concerning the authenticity of - 
ahs 
Pgs 
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coment by apleafantry of who: faid * it was not 
lord 
a copiers it _ gor yet in fpite of  o and rons 
t into: 
the Bruce’s narrative has 
credit ape oe Jones and lately: fully ccitainek ~ the’ - 
French mvaders’ of Egypt, and si individual travellers of: 
undoubted. veraci 
ty: : 
We hall therefore infert. the account of this tn flserheniey: 
and of the fituation in which it was found, i in the: ee 
ee chant: decckiie ofthe 3 Thebes, aid : 
rums 0 gyptain avery" : 
nl to the N.W. oft there ns great mum 
a7 hollowed 
