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Puffets : But yet the Articulate Sounds of the Words will not be confounded. 

 Note that it may be much more hanfomely done, if the Pail be put over 

 the Mans head above Water, aud then he cowre down, and the Pail be 

 preffed down with him. Note that a Man muft kneel or fit, that he may 

 be lower than the Water, A man would think, that the Sicilian Poet had 

 knowledge of this Experiment j For he faith, That Hercules\ Page Hylas 

 went with a Water-pot, to fill it at a pleafant Fountain, that was near the 

 Shore, and that the Nymphs of the Fountain fell in love with the Boy, and 

 pulled him under Water, keeping him alive-, And that Hercules miffing his 

 P^,called him by his Name aloud, that all the Shore rang of it 5 And that 

 Hylas from within the Water, anfwered his Mafter But (that which is to 

 the prefent purpofe) with fo i'mall and exile a Voice, as Hercules thought he 

 had been three Miles off, when the Fountain (indeed) was fait by. 



In Lutes, and Inflruments of Strings ', if you flop a String high, (whereby 

 it hath lefs Scope to tremble) the Sound is more Trebble, but yet more 

 dead. 



Take two Sawcers , and ftrike the Edge of the one againft the Bottome 

 of the other, within a Pail of Water * And you mall find, that as you put 

 the Sawcers lower, and lower, the Sound gcowet\\ more flat even while part 

 of the Sawcer is above the Water - 7 But that Flatnefsof Sound is joyned 

 with a harfhnefsof^W-, which (no doubt) is caufedby the inequality of 

 the Sound, which cometh from the Part of the Sawcer under the Water, and 

 from the Part above. But when the Sawcer is wholly under the Water, the 

 Sound becometh more clear, but far more low And as if the Sound came 

 from a far off. -"' 



A Soft Body dampeth the Sound, much more than a Hard : And if a Bell 

 hath Cloth or Silk wrapped about it, it deadeth the Sound more, than if it 

 were Wood. And therefore in Cleric alls, ,the Keyes are lined And in Col- 

 ledges they ufe to line the Tablemen. 



Triall was made in a Rec order, after thefe feverall manners. The Bottome 

 of it was let againft the Palm of the Hand - 7 flopped with Wax round 

 about, fet againft a Damask Cuihion Thruft into Sand into Afhes -, in- 

 to Water, (half an Inch under the Water h )Clofe to the Bottome of a 

 Silver Bafin -, And ftill the T one remained : But the Bottome of it was fet 

 againft a Wollen Carpet A Lining of Plulh-, A Lock of Wool!, (though 

 loofely put in - y ) Againft Snow •, Pmd the found of it was quite deaded, and 

 but Breath. 



Iron Hot produceth not fo full a Sound, as when it is Cold For while 

 it is hot, it appeareth to be more Soft, and lefs Refounding. So likewife 

 Warm Water •, when it faileth, maketh not fo full a Sounds Cold: And I 

 conceive it is fofter, and nearer the Nature of Oil • For it is more flippery-, 

 As may be perceived,in that it fcowreth better. 



Let there be a Recorder made, with two Fipples, at each end one$ The 

 TrunckoH it of the length of two R ecorders, and the Holes anfwerable to- 

 wards each end •, And let twe^ play the fame Leffon upon it, at an Unifon 

 And let it be noted whether the Soundbe confounded? or amplified-, or 

 dulled. So likewife let a Croft be made, of two Trunks (thorowout) hol- 

 low-, And let two fpeak,or fing, the one long wayes,the other traverfe : And 

 let two hear at the the oppofit Ends And note, whether the Soundbt con~ 

 founded -, amplified or dulled.' Which two Inftances will alfo give light 

 to the Mixture of Sounds •, whereof we (ball fpeak hereafter. 



A Rellowes, blown into the Hole of a Drum, and the Drum then ftrucken, 



! maketh 



