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Figures in all theft particulars muft at the firfl: view be fatis- 
fied they were taken from the fame objeft, and tho drawn 
by difFerent Artifts, may be at two thoufand years diftance, 
yet both manifeftly own the lineaments of the fame natural 
OriginaL 
This too fully appears from a paflageinP^//y^»/^ hisdefcrip- 
tion ot Greece, as I find it quoted by Gefr?er (for I have not 
the Author himfelf by me) which mentions a Mountain in Ar- 
cadia called Parthenius Mons qui Tejludines exhibet ad compitr 
gendas Lfras aptijjiwas and the fame Author again fays in a- 
nother phce^Arcadt/rn^erceta ingenti magnitudifte Tejindines 
exhibent^ ex quihis Lyras conjiceres <eqi{ales illk qi(£ ex Indie a 
Tefliidine componuntur. From w hence 'tis plain the Ancients 
made their Lyres oi the Shells otJortoifes 5 and we may like- 
wife conclude from hence, that in the beginning of times, 
e're the skill of Mufick, or the art of making its Inftruments 
arrived to any perfection, the greateft Mafters in both ways 
were not over-nice and curious in the choice of their mate- 
rials, but promifcuoufly t!ie Land or River Tortoif» to make 
their Inftruments|of, as this or that came more opportunely 
in their way, which occafions Paufamas and Nicander to 
mention the Mountain whereas Horace fpeaks of the River 
Tortoife 5 of which therefore we may fuppofe his Lyre was 
made. 
And indeed, if we confider the true rife or way of Inven- 
tion of all the forts of Tools, Weapons, Machines and In- 
ftruments that now prevail in the World (efpecially thofc 
of Mufick which are what we are now difcourfing of) from 
their firft Beginnings, we (hall find they conflantly derived 
their Origine, and borrowed their firft materials from 
lomewhat that was natural, rude, plain, (imple and eafy 
to come at, thus all the variety ot curious Pipes now in 
' ufe, as th^ Flute ^ Flagelet, Hautboy and Org^i;;/ themfelves, 
tho fo artificially contrived and exquifitely wrought, certain- 
ly ov/e their Beginnings to, and are only refined improve- 
ments of the Tenues Aven<z or Oaten Pipes of the Field, or 
the 
