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shriller and some deeper ; yea, some rendering 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. 



We have also perfume-houses, wherewith we join 

 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. We make divers imitations of taste likewise, so 

 that they will deceive any man s taste. And in this 

 house we contain also a confiture-house, where we make 

 all sweetmeats, dry and moist, and divers pleasant 

 wines, milks, broths, and salads, far in greater variety 

 than you have. 



* We have also engine-houses, where are prepared 

 engines and instruments for all sorts of motions. There 

 we imitate and practise to make swifter motions than 

 any you have, either out of your muskets or any engine 

 that you have ; and to make them and multiply them 

 more easily and with small force, by wheels and other 

 means, and to make them stronger and more violent 

 than yours are, exceeding your greatest cannons and 

 basilisks. We represent also ordnance and instruments 

 of war and engines of all kinds ; and likewise new 

 mixtures and compositions of gunpowder, wild-fires 

 burning in water and unquenchable, also fire-works of 

 all variety, both for pleasure and use. We imitate also 

 flights of birds ; we have some degrees of flying in the 

 air. We have ships and boats for going under water 

 and brooking of seas, also swimming -girdles and sup 

 porters. We have divers curious clocks, and other like 

 motions of return, and some perpetual motions. We 

 imitate also motions of living creatures by images of 

 men, beasts, birds, fishes, and serpents ; we have also 

 a great number of other various motions, strange for 

 equality, fineness, and subtilty. 



We have also a mathematical-house, where are 

 represented all instruments, as well of geometry as 

 astronomy, exquisitely made 



