296 Art and Nature 
Key at the other; and found it lefs than the 
third Part of a Grain *. 
We are told, that one Oswald Nelin^- 
ger •f made a Cup of a Pepper-corn, which 
held twelve hundred other little Cups, all 
turned in Ivory, each of them being gilt on 
the Edges, and {landing upon a Foot: and 
that, fo far from being crowded or wanting 
Room, the Pepper-corn would have held 
four hundred more. 
Thefe are fome of the niceft, mofl curious, 
and furprizing Works of Art: but let us 
examine any of them with a good Micro- 
fcope, and we {hall immediately be con¬ 
vinced, that the utmofl Power of Art'is only 
a Concealment of Deformity, an Impolition 
upon our Want of Sight; and that our Ad¬ 
miration of it arifes from our Ignorance of 
what it really is. 
This valuable Difcoverer of Truth will 
prove the mofl boaded Performances of Art 
to be as ill-fhaped, rugged, and uneven, as 
* I have feen, fince my writing-the above (made by the 
fame Artift) a Quadrille Table with a D awer in it, an Fat¬ 
ing Table, a Side-board Table, a Looking-glafs, twelve 
Chairs with Skeleton Backs, two dozen of'Plate, fix Difties, 
a dozen Knives and as many Forks, twel ve Spoons, two Salts, 
a Frame and Callers, together with a Gentleman, Lady, and 
Footman, all contained in a Cherry Stone, and not filling 
much more than half of it. 
f Ephem . German, Tom. I. Addend, ad Gbferv. 13. 
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