192 NATURAL HISTORY. 



in continuance ; because the tongue is by motion 

 somewhat heated. In some also, it may be, though 

 rarely, the dry ness of the tongue, which likewise 

 maketh it less apt to move as well as cold : for it is 

 an affect that cometh to some wise and great men ; 

 as it did unto Moses, who was &quot; linguas prgepeditae ;&quot; 

 and many stutters, we find, are very choleric men : 

 choler inducing a dryness in the tongue. 



Experiments in consort touching smells. 



387. Smells and other odours are sweeter in the 

 air at some distance, than near the nose ; as hath 

 been partly touched heretofore. The cause is dou 

 ble : first, the finer mixture or incorporation of the 

 smell : for we see that in sounds likewise, they are 

 sweetest when we cannot hear every part by itself. 

 The other reason is, for that all sweet smells have 

 joined with them some earthly or crude odours ; and 

 at some distance the sweet, which is the more 

 spiritual, is perceived, and the earthy reacheth not 

 so far. 



388. Sweet smells are most forcible in dry sub 

 stances when they are broken ; and so likewise in 

 oranges or lemons, the nipping of their rind giveth 

 out their smell more : and generally when bodies are 

 moved or stirred, though not broken, they smell 

 more, as a sweet-bag waved. The cause is double : 

 the one, for that there is a greater emission of the 

 spirit when way is made ; and this holdeth in the 

 breaking, nipping, or crushing ; it holdeth also, in 

 some degree, in the moving : but in this last there is 



