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| forwards to their Hulls: and Bees do (admirably) know the way from a 
| Floury Heath, two orthree miles off ro their Hives. It may be Gnats and 
| Flies have their Imagination more mutable and giddy, as {mall Birds likc- 
| wilehave. Iris faid by fome of the Ancients, that they have onely the Senfe 
| of Feeling, whichismanifeftly untrue; for if they goforth right to a place, 
| they muft needs have Sight: Befides, they delight more inone Flower or 
} Herb, then in another, and therefore have tafte. And Bees are called wich 
| found upon Brals, and therefore they have hearing, Which fhewethlike. 
wife, thatthough their Spirits be diffufed, yet there isa Seat of their Senfis in 
|theirHead. . 
I Osher obfervations concerning the Infecta, together with the Enumeration of them, 
= we refer to that place where we mean to handle the Title of Animals in general. 
| Man leapeth better with weights inhis hands, then without. The caufe 
4 is, for tharthe weight (if ic be proportionable) ftrengthneth the Si- 
news, by contracting them; for otherwife, where no contraction is needful, 
| weight hindreth. As we fee in Horfe Races, Men are curious to forefee that 
| there benor the leaft weight upon the one Horfe more then upon the other. 
| In Leaping with W cights,the Armsare firft caft. backward:,and then forwards, 
} with fo much the greater force; for the hands go backward before they 
takethcirraife, Quere, if the contrary motion of the Spirits, immediately 
‘| before the Motion we intend, doth not caufe the Spirits as it were to break 
4 forth with more force; as Breath alfo crawn, and keptin, cometh forth more 
| forcibly : And in cafting of any thing, the Arms, to makea greater (wing, are 
} fir caftbackward. ) 
| F Mufical Tones and unequal Sounds, we have fpoken befere, but touch- 
} XJ the pleature and difpleature of the Senfes norfo fully. Harfh Sounds, as 
Jot aSawwhenitis fharpned, Grindingof one Stone againft another, {queak- 
Jing or{crieching noifes, make a fhivering or horror inthe Body, and fer the 
| Tecthonedge. Tne caufe is, for that the objects of the Ear do afte & the 
Spirits (immediately) moft with pleafure and offence. We fee there is no 
| colour that affeéteth the Eye much with difpleafure. There be fightsthat 
Jare L:ortible, becaufe they excite the memory of things that areodious or 
| fearful; bucthe famethings painted, do little affe&. As for Smells, Taftes, and 
| Jouches, they be things that do affe& by a Participation or [mpulfion of the 
| body of the Objet. Soit is Sound alone that dothimmediately and incorpo- 
| really affect molt. This is moft manifeftin Mufick, and Concords, and Difcords 
Jin CWufick: For all Sounds, whether they be {Harp or flat, if they befweer, 
j havearoundnefs and equality ; and if they be harfh, are unequal: For a Dif 
| cord it felf, is bue a harfhnefs of divers foundsmeeting. Iris true, that in- 
jequality, not ftaid upon, but paffing, is rather an increafe of fweetnefs ; as 
fin che Purling of a Wreathed String, and in theraucity of a Trumpet, and 
jin the Nightingale-Pipe of a Regal, andin a Difcord ftraight falling upon a 
| Coscord: Butit you ftay uponit, itisoffenfive, And therefore there be thefe 
three degrees of pleafing and difpleafirg in Sounds ; Sweer founds, Difcords; 
and Harfh founds, which we callby divers names, as Scrieching, or Grating, (uch 
as we now {pcak of. Asfor the fetting of the Teethon edge, we plainly fee 
‘| whar aa intercourfe there is bet ween the Tecth,andthe Organ of the Hearing, 
[by thetaking of the end of aBow between the Teeth, and ftriking uponthe 
‘{String. . 
; O ‘NATURAL 
145 
699. 
Experiment 
Solitary, 
touching 
Leaping, 
700. 
Experiment 
Solitary, 
touching the 
Pleafures and 
Difpleafures 
of the Senféss 
efpecially of 
ELearing. 
