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A TREATISE 





impetuofity of the ay res fiidden violent motion. 



And after a fight I once had with Tome Galleafles and Gal- 

 iioncs m the rode of Scanderone (vvhieh was a very hoc one for 

 the time , and a icarce credible number of pieces of Ordnance 

 were fliot from myfleete) the Englifh Conlull of that place 

 comming afterwards abord my fiup , told me that the 1 report 

 of our guns had during all the time of the fight fliaken tkc drin- 

 king-glafles that ftood upon /helves in his houle; and hadiplit 

 the paper-windovYs all about ; and had fpoiled and cracke.l all 

 the egges that his Pigeons were then fitting upon : which lofTe, 

 he lamented exceedingly ; for they were of that kind , which 

 commonly is called Carriers, and ferve them daily in their com- 

 merce between that place and Aleppo. 



And I have often obferved at fea, in fmooth water , that the 

 ordnance fhot of in a fliip Ibme miles diflant , would violently 

 make the glafle windows in another. And I have perceived this 

 effect in my owne , more then one , at the report of a fingle 

 gun from a (hip Co far ofl^that we could not defcry her.I remem- 

 . ber how one time upon fuch an occafion , vye altered our courfe 

 andlleared with the found, or rather with the motion at the 

 firft, obferving upon which point of the Compafle the fhaking 

 appeared(for as we heard nething; though foon after with much 

 attention and iilence we could difcerne a dull clumfie noile: and 

 fuch a motion groweth at the end of it fb faint., that if any ftrong 

 refining body checkeit in its courfe., it is prefently deaded , ana 

 will afterwards fhake nothing beyond that body : and therefore 

 it is perceptible onely at the outfide of the fhip , if fbme light 

 and very moveable body do hang loofely on that fide it eometh, 

 to receive the imprefTion-ofit^a.s this did at the gallery windows 

 of my cabin upon the pocpe.which were oflightMo/covia glafle 

 or talk:) and by then we had run fbmewhat more then a watch, 

 with all the fails abroad we could make., in a fair loom gale, we 

 found our fal ves neere enough to part the fray of two fhip^thac 

 in a little whik longer righting would have funk oue another. 



g^ bcfides themotions in the ayre (whrch received them ea- 

 fily by r . e ! fon oft . he fluic ! it y ri O we fee that even folide bodies 

 ^ participate of it* As if you knock never fb lightly at one end 

 of the longe/t beam you can find, it will be diftin&Jy hard at the 

 oihec cod.'the trampling of men and horfes in a quiet night will 



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othe ayre or 

 found to the 

 org^nc of he*- 



