bees, in good summers, thrive well in my outlet, 

 where the echoes are very strong : for this village is 

 another Anathoth, a place of responses or echoes. 

 Besides, it does not appear from experiment that 

 bees are in any way capable of being affected by 

 sounds : for I have often tried my own with a large 

 speaking-trumpet held close to their hives, and with 

 such an exertion of voice as would have hailed a 

 ship at the distance of a mile, and still these insects 

 pursued their various employments undisturbed, and 

 without showing the least sensibility or resentment. 



Some time since its discovery this echo is be- 

 come totally silent, though the object, or hop-kiln, 

 remains: nor is there any mystery in this defect ; for 

 the field between is planted as a hop-garden, and 

 the voice of the speaker is totally absorbed and lost 

 among the poles and entangled foliage of the hops. 

 And when the poles are removed in autumn the 

 disappointment is the same ; because a tall quick-set 

 hedge, nurtured up for the purpose of shelter to the 

 hop-ground, interrupts the repercussion of the voice : 

 so that till those obstructions are removed no more 

 of its garrulity can be expected. 



Should any gentleman of fortune think an echo 

 in his park or outlet a pleasing incident, he might 

 build one at little or no expense. For whenever he 

 had occasion for a new barn, stable, dog kennel, or 

 the like structure, it would be only needful to erect 

 this building on the gentle declivity of a hill, with a 



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