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NYM(G.763.020
7 Mar 1763:13 (553)
London, November 13. Mademoiselle de Salignac, now in her
18th year, lost her sight when only two years old. . .. [2
paragraphs]
She has learnt, and almost by her self, to play on the
guittar sufficient for her little companions to dance by,
and had even contrived a way of pricking down her tunes, as
an adjutament to her memory; but at present being at Paris
with her father and mother, a musick master teaches her in
the common method, observing the way used in writing to the
young lady by pricking; and to distinguish the whites; they
are made larger. She learnt to sing, and I have heard her
sing in concert.
In figured dances she acquits herself extremely well, in a
minuet with inimitable ease and gracefulness. As for the
work of her sex, she has a masterly hand . . .
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