_ With, (for want of C xx, E x and F x 
HAW 
The beatings are all flat or fharp, as expreffed in the titles 
at the bottom of each column, except the 4th on b E, and 
the Vth on x G, which are otherwife exprefled. 
The examination of the calculations of any of thefe beats 
is perfectly eafy, by Mr. Farey’s theorem for beats, given 
in our article Grave Harmonics, by help of the vibrations 
~ 
In Angntt 1807, the Rev. Mr. Hawkes. iffued’ printed 
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propofals for a fub{cription of 60 guineas (to be made to 
Mr. Anderfon), for completing an inftrument for the fub- 
fcribers, after a plan that had. then lately occurred to him, 
«of akeyed initrument in which frue chords are acquired 
throughout the twenty-four keys,” without the addition of a 
by the action of a pedal, fo that the keys act at the fame 
time on all the five fharps, or ona five flats, without 
al itch of the intermediate nataral notes. in 
tents himfelf on 
iano-fortes, ** every co 
pss] 
oS 
Gb), which a 
or douzeave fcale,) it will appear manifett that the nine 
iniddlemoft keys B b, F, C, G, D 
ae be without qolves in their concerds, wi 
that as we proceed to 
%), and A x has a falfe TIId, a fale Vth, and’a. falfe 
/ A’b has a falfe 34, 
b and Fb), Db has a falfe 34, a falfe Vth, and 
afalfle 6th, (for: = b has 
ac. Pe ES laaleadaat b,A b, and D bb), and G 
, which are Mr. Hawkes’ five additional notes, (than — 
thofe which the Doctor has drawn, to reprefent the common — 
iy market. 
%): in like man-_ 
WAAW:-. 
wa 
mon chords, wiz. in the keys. 
and G b, and five minor commo 
Ax, Eb, Ab, D b, and Gb, 
every three of thefe, wiz. C % and 
% major, and E 6 minor, are effential to completing the 
number of 24 ufual keys, of whofe perfedion the patentee and 
his advocates boatt. a a 
We fhould perhaps have {pared ourfelves and our readers 
the pains of expofing the fallacies in the puffs of this res 
verend patentee, were it not that a le¢turer on mufic at 
urrey Inftitution, had 
fe patent in- 
,»D b, and E bb)., Giving fix major com- 
k D x, Ax, Db, 
chords, viz. in the keys 
Q 
ing only the minor key of 
G * and Eb, o i 
Mr: Hawkes’ inflruments are incapable of executing the 
multitude 
ern, where both flats and fharps occur in the f 
of which ample lifts have been given in the Mufical Maga- 
zine above quoted; but on ,oefchman’s inftruments, 
this can be done with the utmoft facility, and as inftan- 
taneoufly as one of fix pedals can be put down with the foot, 
than one of his pedals require to be ufed at the fame time. 
AWK®, in Geography, a townthip of America, in Rock- 
m county, New Hamphire, incorporated in 1760, 
gha 
con- and containing 389 inhabitants. ? 
Hawke Bay, a bay on the E. coaft of Labrador. N. 
710’. W. long. $F 50. 
Awke’s Bay, a bay on the E. coaft of the no: 
ifland of New Zealand, in the South Pacific ocean. 
Hawke, Cape, a cape on the coaft of New Holland, fo 
called by Cook in 1770. S. lat. 32? 14’. ‘W. long. 
* 
207° 30’. = 
HaAwxe’s Harbour, an arm of Igornachoix bay, New- 
foundland. fd 
Hawke. [fland, a {mall ifland near the E. coaft of Labra- 
dor, N- lat. 53° 10’. W. long. 55° 30’. 
HAWKERS, anciently were fraudulent. perfons, who 
-weat from place to place, nying and felling brafs, pewter, 
cand | 
other merchandize, which ought to be uttered in o 
In this fenfe the word is mentioned, anno 25 ek, 
VIII. cap. 6. and’ 33 ejufdem, cap. 4. 
ap. 4 
The appellation hawkers feems to. have arifen from their 
uncertain wandering, like thofe who, with. hawks, feek their 
game where they can 
a falfe 3d,.a falfe 4th, a falfe Vth, and a eS 6th, (for. 
nt of B bb,C b, D b ‘ 
n 
in all of which falfe notes . 
it. a 
ed as fynonymous with pediar; aper- 
felling wares. + 
i 
3E them 
