and never recollected that the air had that look in 

 rainy seasons. 



My friend, who lives just beyond the top of the 

 town, brought his three swivel guns to try them in 

 my outlet, with their muzzles towards the Hanger, 

 supposing that the report would have had a great 

 effect ; but the experiment did not answer his expec- 

 tation. He then removed them to the Alcove on the 

 Hanger ; when the sound, rushing along the Lythe 

 and Combwood, was very grand : but it was at the 

 Hermitage that the echoes and the repercussions 

 most delighted the hearers ; not only filling the 

 Lythe with the roar, as if all the beeches were 

 tearing up by the roots ; but, turning to the left, 

 they pervaded the vale above Combwood-ponds ; 

 and after a pause seemed to take up the crash again, 

 and to extend round Harteley-hangers, dying away 

 at last among the coppices and coverts of Wardle- 

 ham. It has been remarked before that this district 

 is an anaihoth, a place of responses or echoes, and 

 therefore proper for such experiments : we may far- 

 ther add that the pauses in echoes, when they cease 

 and yet are taken up again, like the pauses in music, 

 surprise the hearers, and have a fine effect on the 

 imagination. 



The gentleman above mentioned has just fixed a 

 barometer in his parlour at Newton Valence. The 

 tube was first filled here (at Selborne) twice with 

 care, when the mercury agreed and stood exactly 



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