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  DR 
  TRAILL 
  ON 
  A 
  PERUVIAN 
  MUSICAL 
  INSTRUMENT, 
  &C. 
  

  

  the 
  fifth 
  string, 
  named 
  Xi^vog 
  ; 
  that 
  Orpheus 
  gave 
  it 
  a 
  sixth, 
  hirarn 
  ; 
  and 
  that 
  the 
  

   seventh, 
  ira^itwrn, 
  was 
  the 
  addition 
  of 
  Thamyris." 
  Even 
  in 
  this 
  improved 
  state 
  of 
  

   their 
  musical 
  system, 
  the 
  fourth 
  was 
  still 
  a 
  favourite 
  and 
  important 
  interval 
  ; 
  for 
  

   we 
  find 
  that 
  their 
  great 
  musical 
  system, 
  as 
  they 
  termed 
  it, 
  " 
  extended 
  to 
  two 
  

   octaves 
  composed 
  of 
  Jive 
  tetracliords 
  ;" 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  manner 
  that 
  the 
  scale 
  of 
  Guido 
  

   of 
  Arezzo, 
  the 
  inventor 
  of 
  the 
  modern 
  system 
  of 
  musical 
  notation 
  and 
  of 
  counter- 
  

   point, 
  is 
  composed 
  of 
  different 
  hexaclwrds. 
  — 
  See 
  Burney. 
  

  

  The 
  sagacity 
  and 
  profound 
  investigations 
  of 
  the 
  learned 
  Sir 
  William 
  Jones 
  

   have 
  clearly 
  proved 
  that 
  the 
  same 
  systems 
  of 
  literature 
  and 
  arts, 
  which 
  once 
  gave 
  

   lustre 
  to 
  Ethiopia 
  and 
  Egypt, 
  prevailed 
  in 
  India 
  ; 
  and 
  more 
  recent 
  investigations, 
  

   especially 
  those 
  of 
  Humboldt, 
  Aglio, 
  and 
  several 
  American 
  travellers, 
  have 
  

   shewn, 
  as 
  we 
  have 
  already 
  noticed, 
  that 
  the 
  arts, 
  the 
  cosmogonies, 
  and 
  astrono- 
  

   my, 
  of 
  the 
  Peruvians, 
  the 
  Mexicans, 
  and 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  other 
  tribes 
  of 
  Central 
  Ame- 
  

   rica, 
  betray, 
  in 
  some 
  respects, 
  an 
  Asiatic 
  origin. 
  

  

  