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two ft ones together 'very deep under the 

 waterjbofe thatftandon abankneerto 

 that place may he art he noife without a- 

 ny diminution of it by the water. H e al- 

 fo offers the like experiment concer- 

 ning the letting an Anchor fall by a 

 very long Cable or rope on a Rock, 

 or the fand within the Sea: and this 

 being fo wel obferved and demon- 

 ftrated, as it is by that learned man, 

 has made me to believe that Eeles 

 imbed themfelves, and ftir at the 

 noife of the Thunder, and not only 

 as fome think, by the motion or the 

 ftirring of the earth, which is occafi- 

 oned by that Thunder. 



And this reafon of SvcFrancisBa- 

 conshas made me crave pardon of ^ ; * 

 one that I laughtat, for affirming 

 thatheknewCWr/tf come to a cer- 

 tain place in a Pond to be fed at the 

 ringing of a Bel; and it (hall be a 

 rule for me to make as little noife as 

 I can when I am a fifhing, until Sir 

 Francis Bacon be confuted, which I 

 K {hall 



