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NYJ-N.772.192
26 Nov 1772:51 (1560)
Extract of a letter from Burslem, July 1. [Describes walking
through a canal at Herecastle] As it is not filled with
water, we entered into it, one of the party repeating the
beautiful lines of Virgil which describe the descent of
Aeneas into the Elysian field. On a sudden our ears were
struck with the most melodious sounds. Lest you should
imagine us to have heard the genius or Goddess of the
mountain singing the praises of Engineer Brindly, it be
necessary to inform you that one of the company had advanced
some hundred paces before, and there favoured us with some
excellent airs on the German flute. You can scarcely
conceive the charming effect of this musick echoed and re-
echoed along a cavern near two thousand years in length. . .
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