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Reader with fome of the fports of Nature, and entertain him a- 

 while with the Nymph Echo ; a Miftrefs ihe is indeed that is ea- 

 fily lpoke with, yet known to few: if therefore I take pains to 

 acquaint him with her, I hope I fhall not perform a thanklefs of- 

 fice. 



1 4. Firft therefore, that Philechus may not be out in his choice* 

 whenever he attempts to court her in Oxford-flAre, he muft know 

 that of thefe there are feveral forts, and may beft, I fuppofe, be 

 diftinguifh'd by their Objefts, which are^ 



Single, fuch as return the voice but once ; and thefe again 



'Polyjyltabical , fuch as return many fyllables, 

 words, or a whole fentence. 

 either are either <; Tomcat, fuch as return the voice but once, nor 



that neither, except adorned with fome pe- 

 culiar Mufical note. 



Manifold, and thefe return fyllables and words, the fame 

 oftentimes repeated, and may therefore be ftiled Tau- 

 tological Echoes, which are caufed 



either bys^ ,, Reflexion. 

 J ^Double} 



15. As for Polyfyllabical articulate Echo's, the ftrongeft and 

 beft I have met with here, is in the Park at Wood/lock, which in 

 the day time, little wind being ftirring, returns very diftin&ly 

 feventeen fyllables, and in the night twenty ; I made experiment 

 of it with thefe words, 



Quae nee reticere loquenti, 

 Nee prior ipfa loqui didicit refonabilh Echo. 



In the day it would return only the Iaft verfe, but in the night a- 

 bout twelve by the clock, I could alfo hear the laft word of the 

 former Hemiftick [loquenti.~\ The objett of which Echo, or the 

 Centrum phonocampticum, I take to be the hill with the trees on the 

 fummitoi it, about half a mile diftant from Woodcock, town, in 

 the way thence to the Right Honorable the Earl of Rochejler's 

 Lodge : And the true place of the Speaker, or Centrum phonicum, 



the 



