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ber of fossils, and imperfect minerals, which you have 

 not. Likewise loadstones of prodigious virtue ; and 

 other rare stones, both natural and artificial. 



&quot; &quot;We have also sound-houses, where we practise and 

 demonstrate all sounds, and their generation. We have 

 harmonies which you have not, of quarter-sounds, and 

 lesser slides of sounds. 1 Divers instruments of music 

 likewise to you unknown, some sweeter than any you 

 have ; together with bells and rings that are dainty 

 and sweet. We represent small sounds as great and 

 deep ; likewise great sounds extenuate and sharp ; we 

 make divers tremblings and warblings of sounds, which 

 in their original are entire. We represent and imitate 

 all articulate sounds and letters, and the voices and 

 notes of beasts and birds. We have certain helps 

 which set to the ear do further the hearing greatly. 

 We have also divers strange and artificial echos, re 

 flecting the voice many times, and as it were tossing 

 it : and some that give back the voice louder than it 

 came ; some shriller, and some deeper ; yea, some ren 

 dering the voice differing in the letters or articulate 

 sound from that they receive. We have also means 

 to convey sounds in trunks and pipes, in strange lines 

 and distances. 2 



&quot; We have also perfume-houses ; wherewith we join &amp;gt; 

 also practices of taste. We multiply smells, which 

 may seem strange. We imitate smells, making all 

 smells to breathe out of other mixtures than those 

 that give them. 3 We make divers imitations of taste 



1 miscentes non tanlum Beta illud aculum et molle, ut vos, sed quadrantes 

 tonorum ; et sonos Iremulns aliquos dulcissimos. 



2 [ad magnam distantinm, el in lineis torluosis.] This is now done very 

 effectively by means of gutta percha tubing. R. L. E. 



8 This power of imitating smells is one of the recent achievements of 



