1310.] 
rather to have suggested the means of 
transmitting the time of future compo- 
sitions, than of any regulation or amend- 
ment of the terms now in use. For 
which reason I beg leave, through the 
means of your truly useful publication, to 
submit whether a table might not be 
formed of the different degress of ume 
both of ancient and modern mu- 
sic so arranged, that on either of the 
quickest degrees being ascertained by 
the means of a pendulum (of which the 
specific gravity as well as the length 
should be determined,) the other degrees 
might be deduced from them, as in an 
arithmetical table; and instead of the in- 
definite terms now used, that the quickest 
time might be named tempo primo,the next 
degree tempo secundo, &c. which, for the 
sake of convenience, might be represented 
by figures, placed in the usual situation of 
the terms. 
It is meant by this arrangement to as- 
¢ertain, for instance, at one view, the 
difference between the ancient and mo- 
dern adagio, &c. and that the degrees 
should be placed in order as they are 
usually understood, By this means it 
would be possible to make such small 
divisions throughout the table, that every 
possible difference might be determined 
with the greatest precision; and, after a 
ttle practice, without the necessity of 
so often using the pendulum. 
Thus it will be possible to hand down 
to futurity the proper time of the music 
we now so tnuch admire; not suffering 
it to be lost, as observed of the music 
of our ancient ecclesiastical compo- 
SErs. 
As to the execution of this object, the 
question may arise, Who can undertake 
it that will be sufficiently regarded to 
make an alteration of this sort generally 
adopted? ‘To this it may be answered, 
that the standard is already ina great 
measure fixed, but the various degrees 
require regulation and arrangement: 
and as Dr. Crotch has already written on 
this subject, this hint may not be deemed 
unworthy his consideration, since I need 
not say of what infinite utility some plan 
ef this description would be to that sci- 
ence of which he is so eminent a profes- 
sor; at all events, hisexcellent specimens 
of style evince him to be the person that 
will obtain the degree of deference re- 
quired, every one being sensible of the 
effect of different time on any style of 
som position. R. 
Guildford, April 13, 1819, 
/ 
Devonshire and Cornwall Vocabulary 431 
for the Monthly Magazine. 
A provincial vocaBULARyY ; containing, 
Jor the most Part, such worDs us are 
current amongst the common PEOPLE of 
DEVONSHIRE and CORNWALL.— 1810. 
(Continued from vol. 6, page 545.) 
LICKHAND, 
Clitty, close; unequal in its com- 
position ; with clots. Clitty bread, that 
is, close bread. ‘* The gruel is clitty,” 
that is, with clots in if. D. : 
A elut, 1d..) €. 
Clocking, clucking: expressive of the . 
noise made by a hen that is desirous of 
sitting to hatch her eggs. c. 
Clome, earthen-ware, that is, kiln- 
loam, D.c, 
Clome-shop, delft-shop. ».¢. 
Clomen-oven, oven of clome or delft. 
** Devonienses nuncupant vasa fictilia, 
omnis generis, cLoME. Belgis leem est 
terra figularis.” Vid. Jun. 
Clopping, dame, limping. €. 
Clout, a bor on the ear. cc. De 
Clouted cream, the cream which rises 
on milk put over a slow fire; not (as is 
often understood) clotted or coagulated, 
but spread over.the milk like a clout or 
prece over the sole of a shue: whence 
clouted shoon. €.D. 
Clum,to, ¢o handle; to pull about awk- 
wardly. Don't clum’en 20.” D. 
Clume buzza, an earthen pan. Exm. - 
Clunt, to, to swallow. It is remark 
able that the Welsh have the ward in 
the same sense. €. 
Clut, glutted. €. 
Co! co! an exclamation. c. D. 
Coad, caud, unhealthy ; consumptive 5 
cored like a rotten sheep. OD. : 
Coajerseend, a cordwainer’s end. D. Cc. 
Coajerswax, cordwainer’s pitch. C. D. 
Coalvarty a bed, to, to warm the bed 
with a Scotch warming-pan, Exm., 
Coander, acorner. Exim. c. 
Cob, clob, mud; leum and straw. D. ¢. 
Cob-wall, «a mud-wall; a wall made of 
loam and straw. Dd. c. 
Cobble-dick-longer-skin, It is cus- 
tomary to call apples by the names of 
those who have produced a new variety, 
by seedlings or otherwise. At Stratton, 
and in the neighbouring parts of Devon, 
an apple was some time since distine 
guished by the name of a cobble-dick- 
longer skin. The man’s name, I suppose, 
was Dick Longerskin ; and probabiy he 
was a cobler. ‘There is an excellent 
pippin in Cornwall, (almost equal to the 
golden) called “ Borlase’s,” or “ the 
Treluddra-pippin,” frm Borlase, who 
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