Part 44 (2/2)

Sometimes of either brass or silver wire, &c, but ut?

The intestines of sheep or laut is also used by watch-makers, cutlers, and other artificers, in their different trades Great quantities are imported from France and Italy

Are there no other kind of Instruments besides those already described?

Yes, ressively improved; and it would be a needless task to enumerate the numbers of instruan, the piano, enious in their construction, as well as remarkable for the sweetness of their various sounds; soers, and produce any melody or combination of sound at the will of the perforan, &c, produce a particular melody, or a certain number of melodies, by means of machinery In the use of the last-named the performer is not at all indebted to his own musical skill, as he has only to turn the handle which sets the an, will continue playing till it has finished the tunes to which it is set

Upon what principle do these last-an and h the former is turned by a handle, and the latter only requires a certain spring to be touched, in order to set it off or to stop it Their machinery consists of a barrel pricked with brass pins; when the barrel revolves, these ping lift a series of steel springs of different lengths and thicknesses, and the vibration of these springs when released, produces the different notes

What is Painting?

The art of representing objects in nature, or scenes in human life, with fidelity and expression, either in oil or water colors, &c

_Fidelity_, truth, faithfulness

_Oil Colors_, those colors which are mixed up with oil, as the others are ater

Is not this art of great antiquity?

There is not the slightest doubt of it; but to name the country where it was first practised, or the circuin, is beyond the power of the historian About a century after the call of Abrahayptian tradition tells us of a colony planted at Sicyon, by an Egyptian, who brought with hi and sculpture, and founded the earliest and purest school of Greek art The walls of Babylon were adorned with paintings of different kinds of ani expeditions, combats, &c Allusions to this custos, are found in the Bible

_Tradition_, a history or account delivered from mouth to e

_Allusion_, reference

_Decorating_, ornadoyptians acquainted with this art?

It is now little doubted that, although painting and sculpture existed in Egypt, and were probably at their highest condition, eighteen centuries before the Christian era, yet, at a still earlier period, these arts were known in the kingdom of Ethiopia; and it is considered likely, that the course of civilization descended froyptian painter in the annals of the art; and it does not appear that it ever flourished in that country, or that other nations were e of it

_Era_, age, period

_Ethiopia_, the ancient nadoms of Nubia and Abyssinia, in Africa

_Annal_, record, history