NCatural Hiftory ; 
Generals {pake to their Armies , “they” had ever a Mount of Turff ar ie 
where upon they ftood. But this may be imputed tothe ftops and obftacles | 
which the voice mecteth with, when one fpeaketh upon the level. But 
there feemeth tobe more init 3 for ic maybe, that Spiritual Species, both 
‘| things vifible, and Sounds, do move better downwards than upwards... It is} 
a ftrange thing,, that 1o Men ftanding below onthe ground, thoféthat béon 
the top of Pauls, feem much icfsthanahey:are, and cannot be Known :° ‘Bu 
‘to Men above chite below, feem nothing fo much leffened, and may bel 
known 3 yeritis true, Thar all’ things to them above, feem alfo- fomewhat 
contraéed and better collected into figure ; as Knots in Gardens thew be 4) 
from an upper Window or Tarras. 
But to make an exaéttryal of it, let a Man ftand in a Chamber, not | 
muchabovethe Ground, and {peak out at the Window thorow “pee L 
one ftanding onthe Groundas {oftly ashe can, the other laying his Ear clofe | 
‘to the Trtnck: Then Viayerfa, let the other {peak below keeping the fame 
| proportion of foftnefs; and let him in the Chamber lay his Ear tothe Tiunek. | 
‘| And thisemay bethe apteft means to make a Jokemene whethed Pounds i 
defcend Or afcend better. : 
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Frer that Sound is created ratiiee isina moment) we fndes it continueth ns 
fomefmall time, melting by little and little. “In this there is awonder- 
ful error amongft Men, who take this to be a continuance of the firft Sound ; 
whereas (in truth) itis 2 Renovation, and notaContinuance: Forthe Body f 
percuffed, hath by reafon of the Percuffion, a Tripidation wrought in the mi- | _ 
roubing the | HUtE parts, and foreneweth the Percuffion of the Air, This appeareth 
aime thcy ve- || manifeftly, becanfe that the Melting found of a Bell, or of a ftring ftrucken, | 
es whichis thought to beaCGontinuance, ceafeth as foon asthe Bell orftcing, are} 
Delation, couched. As ina Virginal, as oon as ever the Jack falleth, and toucheththe | 
firing, the found ceafeth; and ina Bell, after youhave chimed uponit, if you | 
touch the Bell, the found ceafeth, And inthis you mutt diftinguith, that there : 
| are two Trepidations , The one Manifeft and Local; as of the Bell, whenir| 
is Penfile ; the other Secret, of the Minute parts, fuch as is defcribed inthe | _ 
j ninth Inftance. Butitis true, that the Local helpeth the Secret greatly.. Wel 
't fee likewife, thatin Pipes, and other Wind Inftruments, the found laftethno | , 
_-} longer thanthe breath bloweth. Itistrue, thatin Organs there is aconfuled | — 
‘ «| murmur fora while, after youhave played, but that is but while theBellows | 
arc.in falling. _ a 
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Experiments | 
in Confort, | 
touching the 
Lasting and 
Perifhing of 
Sounds; and 
It is certain, thatin the noife of great Ordnance, where many are fi : 
-off together, the found will be carried (atthe leaft) twenty miles upon the} 
Land, and much further upon the Water, burthen it willcometo the Ear; 
not in the inftant of the fhooting off, burit will come an hour, or more later :} A 
This muft needs bea Continuance of thefirt Sound; forthereisno ape : 
_ | dation which fhould renew-itr. And the touching Et the Ordnance would | 
{ nor ‘extinguith the found the fooncr: So that in Braet Sounds, the Contiau- | a 
anceismorethan Momentany. iit 
To try exadtly the time entiban Sound i is Selased) ‘Let a Man ftand in 
Steeple; and have withhim a Taper ,. and let fome Veil be put before t 
| Taper, and let another Man ftand inthe Field a mile off; then Jet him in t 
Steeple ftrike the Bell, and in the fame inftant withdraw the Veil, and fo. 
|‘him in the Field tell by hisPulfe, what diftance of time there is betweent 
|! ct feen, and the Sound ire 3 For it is certain. 5 ‘That the elite on 
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