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makes no refponfe * : arid indeed, it would be matter of won- 

 der if it fhould, fince no one fide of that Cloyfter comes near 

 the diftance affigned for the return of a fyllable, whereas that at 

 Reddington juft equals it> and one fide of New College much ex- 

 ceeds it. 



3 2i Other Echo's there be that belong to this place, as Echo's 

 upon Echo's^ and fuch as my Lord Verulam 1 ftiles back-Echo's | 

 of which, becaufe I have met with none confiderable, I am con- 

 tent to pafs them by, having fufficiently, as I fuppofe, by this 

 time tired the Readers patience with too tedious a confideration 

 of fo particular a fubjeft, and make hafte to treat of the Air of 

 Qxford-flnre, as it ftands in reference toSicknefs or Health. But 

 all Air of it felf being equally pure, and only accidentally good 

 or bad, accordingly as more or lefs filled with wholfom or noxi- 

 ous vapors afcending from the Waters, or moift Earths ; 1 refer 

 its confideration to the next Chapter, to which it feems more in- 

 timately and originally to belong : it being the opinion of Hippo- 

 crates^ and on all hands agreed, That Waters are of much more 

 concernment in reference to health than the Air can be, becaule 

 they are as it were part of our aliment, and the Air not fo ; and 

 may be of themfelves fundamentally bad, whereas the Air is only 

 fo by participation, 



* There it much fuch another as this, in the Ball-Court at Corpus Chrifti Coll. i Nat. Hift.Cmt. j> 

 Num. 24.9, 250. 



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