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SCGCJ.773.083
16 Nov 1773:13 (416)
From the London Chronicle.
[Report of customs of China] . . . Now, heads thus shaven,
and exposed to the inclemency and vicissitudes of the air,
must naturally be subject to many disorders: accordingly a
kind of deafness is so common, that a Chinese, in his
fortieth or fiftieth year, is seldom free from it; and
perhaps it is in consequence of this impediment to sound,
that their musick pleases them infinitely beyond ours; and
they had rather hear a drum, a ring of bells, or the
jangling of a few brass basons, than a concert of European
instruments, which we are so exquisitely affected. . .
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