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JOURNAL 



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NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, CHEMISTRY, 



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THE ARTS. 



NOVEMBER, 1802, 



ARTICLE I. 



Letter from Thomas Young, M. D. F. R. S. In Reply to. 

 Mr. Gough's Letter, at Page 36 of the prefent Volume. On 

 the Phenomena of Sound. 



To Mr. NICHOLSON. 

 S I R, 



i AM not certain that any anfwer, that I can make to Mr. Further dlfcuf- 

 Gough's reply to my letter, will add very materially to the ^ e ^ rently 

 elucidation of the fubjecl in difpute; a part of my objeft is 

 already attained, for Mr. Gough feems to be no longer dif- 

 pofed to contend for Dr. Smith's infallibility, and he appears to 

 have formed in fome meafure a more complete idea of my ori- 

 ginal opinions, while he imagines that I have introduced fome 

 new modifications of them. I cannot however avoid remark- But Mr. Gough 

 ing, that Mr. Gough has wholly omitted to notice the funda- h * s not noticed 

 mental fad, which I flated as affopding the moft fatisfa&ory of monics# 

 all proofs of the coalefcence of founds ; that is, the production The fatts, 

 of a faint, but very audible, graver found from the union of two 

 acuter ones, a phenomenon fo well know to muficians, that I 

 can fcarcely fuppofe a perfon, who is ignorant of it, properly 

 Vqj.. III.— JNqyembsr, 1392. L qualified 



