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imitative and ae it effects dependant on the orcheftra 
attention in the audience, as the 
. The orcheftra isa oan s eagak and 
c a a The 
each fol fale ment a . penc of 
thefe, ther = ori egate, ‘Toul aad “their 
peculiar and gene Ue, sce ely: and contribute to 
a matter of indifference ; it fhould be formed of foft and fo. 
norous wood, fuch as picked deal or fir; the fpeCtators 
fhould not be allowed a place fo near as to 
be eet 
and the other 
matter at t 
them ; in the fam ner er aan ae be in ene S 
the leader, and aa qe fee and be feen by each 
tr. 
754, the firft orcheftra in Europe for number and in- 
telligence, was that of Naples ; but that which was the beft 
diftributed, and formed the moft complete whole, was the or- 
cheftra of the king of Poland, at Drefden, under - direGtion 
of the illuftrious Haffe; a plate of which is inferte 
fig. 1. in Rouffeau’s Hift. de Muf. The r epitenition of 
this orcheftra fhews how, by a fingle glance a fice eye, an idea 
e diftribution of the performers, better 
We afked fignor Haffe 
imagined that M. Roufea had been ae able painter, and 
made the drawing him 
Rouffeau finifhes de article orcheftra by a contrafted 
and ade of that at Paris of the fame period, which we 
ppole has It will, however, 
been reformed with the ftate. 
be FF torical, and enable our readers to form fome idea of 
what kind that mufie was, and how performed, with which 
the natives of France were fo pleafed and exclufively vain. 
«It has been obferved,’’ fays the citizen of Geneva, ‘¢ that 
» cram with iron, which im- 
pedes all refonance. e bad choice of i peioraets. 
for the moft part forced on es manager by recommendation, 
with {carce any knowledge of mufic, or the leaft intelligence 
or attention to the effect of the enfemble heir ftun- 
ning and invariable noife, tuning, and | flourifhing apace 
with all their force, without ever being i 
French prepenfity, which is in eearal to ogee ae dif. 
of heavy and mafly woo 
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dain all that becomes a daily labour. 5. The bad inftru- 
ments of the performers, which remaining on the fpot are 
always out of order and unfit for ufe, deflined to roar during 
one half of the year, and to rot the - 6. The bad 
sien of the mafter, who is in front of the theatre, and 
occu by the vocal performers, is not able to attend 
ufficiently to the a which is behind him inftead of 
being in fi ee e infupportable noife the trun- 
8 the time makes, w 
he 
ch being never pure and 
ard but noife and confufion. 9, The 
ellos, of which the 
nie founds fuffocate the melo A and deafens the 
audience. 10. And finally, the total want of meafure, and 
eae ae aiee of the French mufic, where it is the 
t s the peal inftead of the orcheftra 
regulating the Gee an ere the treble leads the bafe, 
inttead of the bafe leading fe treble. 
Sixteen years after this period, the orcheftra at Bruffels 
was the moft celebrated in Europe, a ag its performers 
were the aaa ss French mufic. It under the di- 
reCtion of M. Fitzthumb, a ver cane oad pen oe 
maeftro di cape ella, els beat the time (which then could no 
be difpenfed with), and was indefatigable in preferving ae 
difcipline. The orcheftra was : admirably c are ced, and 
the band, taken as a whole, fo numerous, oe 
and mr that if the horns had 1 not ide aa out of 
tune, the effe&t of the whole would have approached perfection 
fo near as to have tongue-tied criticifm itfelf. 
ORCHI EE, in Botany, a mott natural and v very 
curious order of plants, which has attrafted general notice 
by its beauty and fingularity, derives its name from one o 
the Se genera of which it is compofed, and makes the 
venth among the natural orders of Linnzus, the third of 
the fourth clafé in Juffieu. For the characters of this fourth 
clafs, fee Mu: 
Creat advances have been made in the para of thefe 
plants fince the publications of Linnzus and Juffieu 
remarks we fhall therefore pafs over. 
pak which Haller had in fome meafure 
took a new sien ego an _ Orchidee, chet depending 
on the ftru€ture of their ublifhed his 
Willdenow in his Sp. Pl. v. 4, follow 
fteps of Swartz. We have had frequent occafion to refer to 
thefe writers, under genera belonging to the order in 
queltion fee CyMBIDIUM, rhage Disa, he 
DRUM, Extracts &e. own, in his Prodr. FI. 
Nov. Holl. 309, has revi vifed the ee of his pre- 
deceffors, correded feveral miftakes, an 
New Journal. 
ip only for the coro 
— meee ermanent, oF three leaves, either 
difting, or more or lefs un he at their bafe; the dorfal or 
uppermolt shies bruce and moft concave, rarely elongated 
below into a pouch or {pur ; all frequently coloured. Cor. 
Petals two, equal, between the dorfal a lateral leaves of 
the calyx, and of a {maller fize; their bafe fometimes elon- 
gated into a pouch with that of oe ‘ateral calyx-leaves. 
Neary 
