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all will end to the satisfaction of the offended ear.
Wednesday 8. This day was not re- markable for any enquiry relative to the present state of music in Italy; however it deserves mention here, on account of the opportunity it afforded me of con- versing with the Abate Martini, one of the best judges of every part of music, ancient and modern, that I had yet met with. He is an able mathematician, a composer, and performer. He had tra- velled into Greece, in order to make ob- servations in geography, agriculture, and natural history; but being unable to sa- tisfy himself as he expected, he was so mortified by the disappointment, that he would not publish any of his remarks or discoveries.
Among other curious enquiries, he made many concerning the music of the modern Greeks, in hopes it would throw some light upon that of the an-
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