thtQIml hipms JnnSfi of tliQ Ancients^ Reeds of unequal' 
lengthy rudely put together ^ and thu^ wc fee the Trurnpets 
of old, were at firft made only of rude Horns the eafy fpoils 
of Beafts, and rometimes of the common BuccinaWhelks or 
large Sea (hells that were obvious, and readily found on 
every Rock or Sea (horej hence that of FirgU. 
Borneo firepmrunt Qmm cantu^ 
^nd that of Perfem» 
B^mnajamprifcos c^gehiad arma ^mt^s. 
And afterwards when the Roman- People in!arged their 
Empire, grew more polite^ and all their Mechanick Arts 
received mighty improvements, tho they had then learnt to 
make thefe fame Inftruments of different and more commo- 
,dious fbapes, and framed them of quite other forts of mate« 
rialSj yet ftill they retained their lirft old NameSj and fo 
th^Tefiudo did^ by which we might as eafiij trace it as thefa 
-to their- primitive originals. 
For 'tis very imnifeft, that in fucceeding Ages^ as the skill 
of the Mechanick Artift^ that wrought aad concrli^ed the 
Lyn^ as well as that of the Maflcian that ufed the Infcrc- 
ment, arrived at a- greater height^ the mode! of the old 
Te^udo im^ ranch ^Itefds the number of the Ctrings increafed, 
and the Chape fb mightiiy' diverfityed^ that at lenghth they 
wholly laid afide tho Tortoifi jhdl^ and the fonorons part or 
-Belly of the Lyre^ was made of Inch different Figures, 
that they bore not the leaft refemblance to its lirft mo- 
del 
This plainly appears from thofe oth^er Schemes Merfinnns 
gives us in the fame Table ot fevera! forts of the Ancient 
Lyres Cbut thefe I take to be more modern than that which 
is here expreftj and from thofe defcribed by Leonardo 
Jgojiimi in the fecond part his CoUeftion of the Ge^^m^ 
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