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were of real importance to my History.
In the third apartment of this curious
repository, where the ancient instruments
of surgery are placed, I met with the fol-
lowing musical instruments; three Sys-
trums, two with four brass bars, and one
with three; several Crotoli or cymbals;
Tambours de basque; a Syringa, with se-
ven pipes; and a great number of broken
bone or ivory tibiæ.
But the most extraordinary of all these
instruments is a species of trumpet, found
in Pompeii not a year ago; it is injured
by time and broken, but not so much so
as to render it difficult to conceive the
entire form. There are still the remains
of seven small bone or ivory pipes, which
are inserted in as many of brass, all of the
same length and diameter, which surround
the great tube, and seem to terminate in
one mouth-piece. Several of the small
brazen pipes are broken, by which the
ivory ones are laid bare; but it is natu-
ral to suppose that they were all blown
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