ftances notasitisin Light, and Colours, and Sounds: For we fee plainly lia 
that {mell doth {pred nothing that diftance that the other do. Ir is true, that tochicg thé 
+ Q ne Woods of Orenges, and Heaths of Rofenary, will fell a ‘grcat way into Corporeal | 
the. Sea, perhaps twenty Miles 5 but whar is that, fince:apeal of Ordnance Co. of 
Willdo.as much, which moveth in a {mall compas, whereas thofe Woods | 
| land. Heaths are of vatt {paces > Befides, we {ce that fmells do adhere tohard 
| Bodies ; as in perfuming of Gloves, &c, which fheweth them corporéal;, and 
| do laft a great while, which Sounds and Light donot. 
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He Excrements of moft Greinies fmell ill, chiefly to the el Creaftice| 835. 
iT that voideth them: For we fee, befides that of Man; that Pigeons and. pores 
| Horfesthrive beft, if their Houfes and Stables be kepr weer; and foof Cage- | touching 
| Birds ; and the Cat burieth that which fhe voideth. And it holdeth chiefly in Fotis an. ; 
‘ thofe Beatts which feed upon Ficth. Dogs (almoft) onely of Bealts delight in Jano 
' fetide odors 5 which fheweth there is fomewhat in their fenfe of {mell differ- 
+} ing from the (mells of other Beafts. Bur the caufe why Excrements. fmell ili is | 
| manifeft, for that the Body it felf reje@eththem, much.more the Spirits: 
| And ‘wefce, that thofe Exczements that are of the frtt digeltion fell: the wortt, 
| as the Excrements from the Belly; thofe thatare from the fecond digeftion, lefs | 
| il, as Vrine ; and thofe that are fromthe third, yet lefs; forSweat isnot fo 
‘| bad asthe othertwo, efpecially of fome perfons that are full of, heat. : Like- 
} wife moft Putrefactions are of an odious fmell, for they fmell either fertile ox 
| mouldy. The caufe may be, for that Putrefadtion doth bring forth fucha 
| confiftence as ismoft contrary tothe confiftence of the Body whileft its 
| found, for it isameerdiffolution of that form. Befides, there is another rea- 
| fon, which is profound: Anditis, That the objects zhat pleafe any, of he 
fenfes, have (all) fome equality, and (as it were) order in their compofition, | » 
| but where thofe are wanting theobjetisever ingrate. So mixture of many 
{ difagreeing, colours is never unpleafant to the Eye: Mixture of difcordant 
(ri is unpleafant to the Ear; mixture or hotch- -potch of many taftes:is 
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-unpleafant tothe tafte ; harfhnefs and ruggednefs ot Bodies is unpleafant to. 
‘the touch. Nowitiscertain, thatall PutrefaCtion; being adiffolucion.of the | 
| fir form, isa meer confufion, and unformed mixture of the part. Never-, 
| thelefs, it isftrange, and {cemeth to crofsthe former .obfervation, that: fome | 2 
_| Putrefaétions and Excrements do yield exccllentOdors ; as, Civit and Musksand + 
| asfome think, Amber-greece, for divers takeit (though ‘anprobably} to'come rerio? f 
from the Sperm of F.ths and the Mols we f{pake of from Apple-srees is littie | 8 
| better thenan Exeretion.. The reafon may be, for thar there pafleth inthe | au. 
| Excrements, and remainethin the Putrefagtions, {ome.good fpirits, efpecially, 
| where they proceed from Greatures that, are very hor. -But it may, be; allo. 
'|joyned with a further caufe, which is morefubtil; and. itis, that the Senfes 4 
I love nottobe over-pleafed, bur to have a commixture, of fomewhatthat is 
in it {elf ingrate. Certainly, we fee how Difcords.in Mufick, falling: upon ) 
| Concords, make thef{weeteft ftrains : And we fee again what ftrange re taltes 
1, delight the tate; as: Red- -herrings, Caviare, Parmefan,. ec. And. it may be the 
fame holdeth in {mells, For thofe-kinde of fmellsthat we have mentioned 
| are all {trong, and dopull and vellicate the Senfe. And we findealfo, that 
} |\ places where men Urine commonly have fome {mell of mf Milets And Visine 
|if onc hath caren AAD oD Bs hath fotoo, . : | 
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