4 Mr, Taylor on the Panarman'an of the Greeks; { Augui 1, 
fider this fociety, in regard to the Board of 
Agriculture, in the fame light as I would 
view the Houle of Commons in refpeét to 
the Houle of Lords. And as the Com- 
mons exceed the Lords in zeal, energy, 
and patriotic exertions, fo I flatter mvteif 
will this inflitution, in diligence and acti- 
vity, rival that illuftrious board. 
It is thought defirable to purchafe ra- 
ther than to rent ; and when the bufinefs 
of the charter thall be completed, it is pro- 
pofed to look out fora farm within zo 
miles of London, but from 7 to 12 miles 
would be preferred. The quantity of land 
from two to three hundred acres. 
' Having for fome years paft been largely 
engaged in practical agr culture, and hav- 
ing 300 acres in my Own occupation, I can- 
not fay that Iam a difinterefted advocate 
for this inftitu'ion. I: certainly will be of 
confiderable advantage to gentlemen en- 
gaged in farming in the reighbourhoed cf 
London, to have an opportuni y of vifiing 
a farm of this defeription, and to watch the 
progre(s and refult of the different experi- 
ments which may be wanted. Experi- 
ments merely megateve are of confiderable 
importance. Few are fond of compiaining 
do the world their ill fuccefs, while the 
raifes of every luxuriant crop or fuccefs- 
ful praétice are loudly trumpeted abroad. 
Hence have arien miftaken ideas of the 
profits of agriculture. 
- The fociety has been reprefented as a 
trading company, whofe calculations are 
etroneous, and whofe profits will be pre- 
carious. This repreientation is not juit. 
‘The advancement of agricultural fcience is 
the main obje&t for which we aflociate, and 
mot the increafe of our property, though no 
doubt proper care will be taken that fub- 
feribers eventually fhal| not fuftain any lof. 
The fociety is at prefent in its infancy: 
it is impoflible, theretore, to determine 
how far its future views may be enlarged, 
and whether or not they may extend to the 
publication of papers like the Society of 
Arts. 
- When in the time of the civil wars Mr. 
Boyle and Sir Hans Sloane, and other 
eminent men, met together for philofophi- 
cal éonverfation ; itis tobe fuppoled thele 
penetrating genuifes did nor forefee that 
they were founding a fociety, the exiftence 
of which would be coeval with that of 
{cience itfelf in this country; and why 
fhould we avegur lefs favourably of an in- 
ftitution which has for its objects the ad 
vancement of Brili/h Agriculture ? On this 
fubject, Sir, it 1s unneceflary to enlarge. 
When once the fociety is known, I am 
hoa ind ‘ ‘ 
ow & 
perfuaded it will make its way by its own 
merits, I am, Sir, 
' Your humble Servant, 
A Wiuxinson, M. D. 
White Webb Farm, 
Enfield Chace, Fune 13. 
rei : 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
bau appears from the following pafiage, 
i. from the Commentaries of Proclus on 
the Republic of Plato, that the ancients 
had a mufical infrument which they cal- 
led PANARMONION—vtay epyaray erinalay 
Th KaouPelA Wavagrovia, Kab TIVE TELy WHOS, 
“kh 
xa auToy Tov audoy eomora Tos Tavageovsors Oba 
+0 mAnbos Tuy TeUTNpLaT ov, OLS TO VELA YEYOVED EX 
rou mrayloous degpeonas ewes Duvdloy emsdesnvur das 
oF aurey. p. 366. i. e. ** Plato, deipifing 
the infruments called PANARMONIA, the 
trigons, and the pips, refembling the Pan- 
ARMONIA through the multitude of the 
apertures; which inttruments (i. e. the 
panarmonia) were fo called, becaufe it is 
poffible through them to exhibit all vari. 
ous harmonies.’ P:oclus here alludes to 
a paflage in the third book of Piato’s Re- 
public, in which that philofopher fays, 
Que age morvyoedias yey ude Mavaghoviou npLty 
Sencss ev Taig wae TE ar cheow. p. 196 Of 
Maffey’s edition) ; i. ¢. ‘* We fhall not, 
therefore, require inftruments of many 
chords, nor the PANAR MONION inodes and 
melodies.” The Latin tranflator appears, 
by his tranflation of this paffage, to have 
been entirely ignorant that the ancients had 
any fuch inttrument. ‘* Num igitur opus 
erit nobis in cantibus et melodiis harmonia 
que multis conftat chordis omnibulque 
concentibus?” 
Ido not recollect any other author by 
whom this irflrument 1s mentioned ; nor 
am I able to form.any conception of the 
conftruction of this PANaRMONION; I 
fhall therefore be much obliged to any of 
your mufical correfpondents, who may be 
able to elucidate the nature of this inftru— 
ment, for their communications on the 
fubjec. ; 
I only add, that this inftrument is alfo 
mentioned by Proclus, in his MS. Com- 
mentary on the firt Alcibiades of Plato, 
in which we likewife meet with very re- 
markable information refpecting the Athe- 
nian pipe. ‘As oe@as modireias Thy GUAYTEXDY 
ameseaducay. Ovxov? ouse 6 TAat@y avTny Ta- 
exdextlas. To Se articv, 1 ToimtAie TOU ds Tov 
ocyaroy Tov avdcy AEYM, 0 Kau why Teyvay THe 
KERMEMV AUT M ABEPUIE PEUKIOY. Kab ye Te GAVAP = 
Movi, Nas} Worvycedia, iaMTa Twvavda Ere 
EXagoy yee TevmNna Tay avroy Teidoyyous * &S 
Dari, TOY EAMHIC OY ADINTIV BE dE Xai Ta TagaTeu= - 
: AUT AaT 
