Scholium.
The foregoing table exhibits, with sufficient accuracy, the ratio of the whole number of times which the different chords would occur, were the 1600 scores, whose signatures were examined, actually played in succession, on the keys to which they are set, and with an instrument having distinct sounds for all the flats and sharps. Had the examination been more extensive, the results might be relied on with greater assurance as accurate; but the general similarity, not only in the structure of different musical compositions, but in the comparative frequency of the different keys in different authors; is so great, that a more extensive examination was thought to be of little practical importance.
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Art. II. Review of an elementary Treatise on Mineralogy and Geology.
Art. II. Review of an elementary Treatise on Mineralogy and Geology, being an introduction to the study of these sciences, and designed for the use of pupils; for persons attending lectures on these subjects; and as a companion for travellers in the United States of America—Illustrated by six plates. By Parker Cleaveland, Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, and Lecturer on Chemistry and Mineralogy in Bowdoin College, Member of the American Academy, and Corresponding Member of the Linnæan Society of New England.
—— itum est in viscera terræ:
Quasque recondiderat, Stygiisque admoverat umbris,
Effodiuntur opes —— Ovid.