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pole, or a piece of ordnance, though one speak upon 

 the surface of the ordnance, and not at any of the 

 bores, the voice will be heard farther than in the air 

 at large. 



132. It would be tried, how, and with what pro 

 portion of disadvantage the voice will be carried in 

 an horn, which is a line arched ; or in a trumpet, 

 which is a line retorted ; or in some pipe that were 

 sinuous. 



133. It is certain, howsoever it cross the received 

 opinion, that sounds may be created without air, 

 though air be the most favourable deferent of sounds. 

 Take a vessel of water, and knap a pair of tongs 

 some depth within the water, and you shall hear the 

 sound of the tongs well, and not much diminished ; 

 and yet there is no air at all present. 



134. Take one vessel of silver, and another of 

 wood, and fill each of them full of water, and then 

 knap the tongs together, as before, about an handful 

 from the bottom, and you shall find the sound much 

 more resounding from the vessel of silver, than from 

 that of.wood : and yet if there be no water in the 

 vessel, so that you knap the tongs in the air, you 

 shall find no difference between the silver and the 

 wooden vessel. Whereby, beside the main point of 

 creating sound without air, you may collect two 

 things : the one, that the sound communicateth with 

 the bottom of the vessel ; the other, that such a 

 communication passeth far better through water 

 than air. 



135. Strike any hard bodies together in the midstof 



