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as well as the fatisfa&ion we enjoyed from a lympathy with their 
feelings. 
Uleaborg, during the time of our flay, had a concert every 
evening, open to every one that chofe to attend. Our audience 
increafed in number to fuch a degree, that we were obliged to 
hire an apartment larger than any room in our houfe ; and our 
quartetto was conftantly honoured by a numerous circle of ladies, 
and almoft all the gentlemen of the town. It is impoffible for 
me to convey an adequate idea of the impreffion our mufic made 
upon our hearers. In order to make a trial of their fenfibility, and 
the effedt of mufic on their paffions, we compofed on purpofe a 
few pieces of an eafy harmony, the movement of whofe modula¬ 
tions was natural and intelligible even to perfons unaccuflomed to 
the artificial refinements of mufic. We fludied to alternate the 
movements of grand effect, palling from the highefl forte to the 
loweft piano, and vice verfa, by tranfitions of furprife. We pre- 
fently faw the tears trickle from the eyes of our feeling audience. 
As we realized the fabulous times of Greece, our fpedlators pre- 
fented a moft interefting pi&ure, worthy of the pencil of the moil: 
celebrated painter. The eyes of all our hearers were turned upon 
us; fome feemed to follow with every feature of the face the 
movements of the melody: we could read in the phyfiognomy of 
the Finlanders the character of the mufic we had played ; every 
look became ferious at forced and ftrong modulations, while foft 
and melodious palfages feemed to difperfe the cloud, and their 
countenances refumed their tranquillity. It was curious to obferve 
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