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or hesitating to consider the Course, you may throughly understand the
Methods; the Four preceding Observations being first perfectly
understood.

There are two wayes of _Ringing Changes_, viz. By _Walking_ them, as the
Artists stile it; or by _Whole-pulls_, or _Half-pulls_: _Walking_ is,
when in one _Change_ the _Bells_ go round, _Four_, _Six_, or _Eight_
times; which is a most incomparable way to improve a young Practitioner,
by giving him time to consider, which two _Bells_ do make the next
succeeding _Change_, and in making it, what _Bell_ each is to follow;
so that by this means (by his industry) he may be capable of Ringing at
_Whole-Pulls_; Which is, when the _Bells_ go round in a Change at fore
and back-stroke; and a new Change is made every time they are pulled
down at Sally: This an Ancient Practice, but is now laid aside, since we
have learnt a more advantageous way of hanging our _Bells_, that we can
manage a _Bell_ with more ease at a Set-Pull than formerly: So that
Ringing at _Half-Pulls_ is now the modern general Practice; that is,
When one Change is made at Fore-Stroke, another at Back-Stroke, _&c._

I have one Thing more to add in these _introductory_ Rules, and that in
short is this: He that Rings the slowest _Hunt_, ought to notify the
_extreme Changes_; which is, when the Leading _Bell_ is pulling down,
that he might make the Change next before the Extreme, he ought to say,
_Extreme_. By this means, betwixt the Warning and the Extreme there will
be one compleat Change.

_Of Changes_, &c.

There are _two kinds of Changes_, viz. _Plain Changes_, and
_Cross-Peals_; which Terms do denote the _Nature_ of them; for as the
first is stiled _Plain_, so are its Methods easy; and as the second is
called _Cross_, so are its Methods cross and intricate: The First have a
general Method, in which all the Notes (except Three) have a direct
_Hunting-Course_, moving gradually under each other, plainly and
uniformly: _Plain_ are likewise termed _single Changes_, because there
is but one single Change made in the striking all the Notes round,
either at fore or back-stroke. But the Second is _various_, each Peal
differing in its Course from all others; and _in Cross-Peals as many
Changes may be made as the Notes will permit_. In short, as to
_Plain-Changes_, I shall not dilate on them here, it being so _plainly_
understood by every one that lately have rung a _Bell_ in peal; All
therefore I shall add is this, Th