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a human being. By an extended culture of the apple and 
pear, many millions of bufhels of barley, now converted 
mee malt, might be annually faved and applied to better pur- 
vm The round now employed in its culture might be made 
to produce wheat, or other articles immediately neceflary to 
fociety ; and that the juice of the apple and pear will afford 
a liquor as wholefome as any w ich can be obtained from 
malt, is fufficiently evinced by the general appearance of the 
natives of this and other cider counties 
r. Marfhall > in 
by hops, in others Iberts, and in grown orchards t 
latter are fometimes feen. So orchards are likewife 
in permanent {ward, others under arable or garden ea 
and fome in fainfoin, aiile others areinlucern. See PLA 
inc, Frurt-Trees, and AppLe-Tree 
It has been obferved by ii suilice of the Rural Econom 
of Gloucefterfhire and Herefordfhire, that the cultivation of 
fruit-trees, for the fole purpofe of liquor, is peculiar to the 
weltern provinces. e fouthern counties, when the Lon- 
don markets are ouernock 0 with fruit, make a fort of liquor 
from the furp t the eaftern, the northern, and the 
midland counties, may ‘be aid to be as much unacquainted 
with the bufinefs of a iiaaoeoriaed, as they are with that 
of a vineyard. ven Staffordfhire, which is divided from 
the cider country by a narrow ridge of hill haenle has not, 
generally fpeaking, a barrel of cider made within 
Herefordfhire has ever borne = name i the fief cider 
county ; Gloucefterfhire, however, claims a preference in 
the two moft celebrated raitliquor a “aiftriee affords. 
Worcetterfhire and Monmouthfhire have their claims of ex- 
cellency. May Hill _ be eonGdered as the centre of this 
divifion of the cider c y: 
evonfhire, - io. eaioniae perenne form another di- 
vifion ; which, though upon the uch inferior to 
this, eae ces one {pecies of iiquer ¢ the coccagee cider, ) 
which is in high a ation. See Crp 
Perfons robbing orchards are to Gia fuch recompence of 
as age as a jultice fhall award, aud forfeit not exceeding 
. or be fent to the houfe of correction, &c. Stat. 43 Eliz. 
on See Larceny. 
Oncu HARD, Cherry, in sere that fort of orchard 
7 is principally deftined to raifi cherries. 
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body, te res, in ey of all the _demovfeation with 
which men commonly accompany t ech, or which 
they mse ie Ls to explain their pacer without the 
a iad of w 
art was am into many fpecies, and had p 
dace among the ancients fuch a number of different a. 
that Meu ith their names. 
According to Athenzus, eae was the inventor of this 
kind of dance, which we call the 
This was, of all the mufical aired fe ot aa the an- 
cients were woft paffionately fond, and which was of t 
greateft utility in ney ftate of life, from ie ducing 
player to the ora 
Apuleius has left us a sey ee a a oil igar ae of the 
Judgment of eal eect an He only ufes 
the word ‘i march, and fays, be Venue tlie with her 
eyes. So that the aricients feldom bo alte do 
3 eamMnNnafed an 
tales and fables of antiquity. Nonnus, Dionyf. v. v. 104, 
et feq. fays, 
‘© Sweet Polhymnia fee pe 
Mother 
See Mime and PanToMIME 
ORCHESOGRAPHY, the art of noting all the fleps 
and motions ufed in dancing. See Dance. 
ORCHESTRA, in the Drama, the lower part of the 
ancient raieee made in 
rounded by the feats. 
t was ele. becaufe, in the Grecian theatres, it 
was a elas where they held i balls ; from cpxzoua, 
orm of a femicircle, and fur 
lance. 
The orcheftra, among the Greeks, made a part of the 
{cena ; alc n the Roman theatres, none of the actors 
went dow bey the orcheftra, which was taken up with 
feats for fe fenators, magiftrates, veftals, and other per- 
fons = diftin@ion ; anfwering, nearly, to the pit in our 
theat 
The “orcheltra of the ancient Greeks had its name from 
being that part of the theatre where the dances were per- 
ormed. At prefeat the word is more particularly applied 
to the ftation where a band of mufic is placed ina theatre, or 
great concert room. The leader of a band, or orcheftra, 
fhould not only be a great and experienced performer, but 
of a ai and determined ee that commands sae 
imitative 
