4^4 PALAIS ROYAL. 



in muflc, but appears to me highly relevant to the fub- 

 jecl. It is this : Would it riot be poflible, and worth 

 while, to attempt whether the brutal tones, which are 

 not expreffible with the letters known to us, might not 

 be written, and, confequently, read, by the notes 

 which are already known, or others to be invented for 

 that pnrpofe ? W ere this poffible, I, for my part, 

 .ihould have no doubt remaining, that we might learn 

 to analyze the brutal fpeech into articulate tones, to 

 afcertain them diftinclly, and, in incomparably more 

 cafes than we have hitherto been able, to underftand 

 them. 



CONTINUATION OP THE LETTERS ON PARIS, 

 THE PALAIS ROYAL. 



Paris, Sept. 6, 1789, 



l^OU complain of my not gratifying your im-t 

 patient curiofity concerning the palais royal. In anfwer- 

 to which, I have only to fay, that my not beginning 

 to attempt it till now is not owing to negligence, but 

 to the delire of fending an account of it that ihould be 

 fomewhat fatisfactory. This wonderful palace has fo, 

 much of the attractive and fo much of the peculiar, 

 that it alone would employ one for fome months ; and 

 a jdefcription of it fuperficially given, would be a fort 

 of affront to the enterprifing fpirit of man, and the 

 culture of the human mind. Allow me therefore to 



take 



