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into a book as curious, it is copied into
others without examination, and without
end. There is a very fine harpsichord,
to look at, but not a key that will speak:
it formerly had a communication with an
organ in the same room, and with two
spinets and a virginal; under the frame is
a violin, tenor, and base, which, by a
movement of the foot, used to be played
upon by the harpsichord keys. The or-
gan appears in the front of the room,
but not on the side, where there seems to
be pipes and machines enclosed; but there
was no one to open or explain it, the old
Cicerone being just dead.
Wednesday 21. This morning I went
to the Kirchean museum, founded about
the middle of the last century by Father
Kircher, author of the Musurgia, and of
several other curious and learned works.
Mr. Morrison, who had obtained permis-
sion for me to see it, was so obliging as
to accompany me thither. The museo
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