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to those in use at this time in England. It is remarkable that this university has no correspondence with England, nor is it able to purchase our Phi- losophical Transactions. The salaries are small, and the money allowed for the support of the Institute is all appro- priated. This I was told by the Keeper or Custode, who shewed me the apart- ments. My visit to the learned Sig- nora Bassi was very agreeable, and she was so obliging as to offer me a letter to Signor Fontana at Florence, one of the first mathematicians in Europe.
They speak much at Bologna of the Bravi Orbi, or excellent blind musicians, who were not in town when I was there; but all the masters admire them, in their way, very much, particularly Jomelli, who always sends for them, when in the same town, to play to him. They travel about in summer to Rome, Naples, and elsewhere; one plays on the violin, the other on the violoncello, and is called Spacca Nota, or Split Note.
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