108 NATURAL HISTORY. 



between ; as &quot; emtus&quot; is pronounced &quot; emptus ;&quot; and 

 a number of the like. So that if you inquire to the 

 full, you will find, that to the making of the whole 

 alphabet there will be fewer simple motions required 

 than there are letters. 



199. The lungs are the most spungy part of 

 the body ; and therefore ablest to contract and dilate 

 itself; and where it contracteth itself, it expelleth 

 the air; which through the artery, throat, and 

 mouth, maketh the voice : but yet articulation is not 

 made but with the help of the tongue, palate, and 

 the rest of those they call instruments of voice. 



200. There is found a similitude between the 

 sound that is made by inanimate bodies or by ani 

 mate bodies, that have no voice articulate, and divers 

 letters of articulate voices : and commonly men have 

 given such names to those sounds, as do allude unto 

 the articulate letters ; as trembling of water hath 

 resemblance with the letter L ; quenching of hot 

 metals with the letter Z ; snarling of dogs with the 

 letter R; the noise of screech-owls with the letter 

 Sh ; voice of cats with the diphthong Eu ; voice of 

 cuckows with the diphthong Ou ; sounds of strings 

 with the letter Ng ; so that if a man, for curiosity 

 or strangeness sake, would make a puppet or other 

 dead body to pronounce a word, let him consider, on 

 the one part, the motion of the instruments of voice ; 

 and on the other part, the like sounds made in ina 

 nimate bodies ; and what conformity there is that 

 causeth the similitude of sounds ; and by that he 

 may minister light to that effect. 



