V^aturall Hijtoty- 



Experiment* 

 in Confort 

 touching Ar- 

 ticulations of 

 Sounds. 

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IT is evident and it is one of the ft ranged Secrets in Sounds • that the whole 

 S ound 'is not in the whole Air on\y; But the whole Sound is &(o in every 

 fmall Part of the Air. So that all the curious Diverfitie of Articulate 

 Sounds of the Voice of Man, or Birds, will enter into a fmall Crany , In- 

 confufed. 



The UnequaU Agitation of the Winds, and the like, though they be mate- 

 riall to the Carriage of the Sounds, further or lefs way yet they do not 

 confound the Articulation of them at all, within that diftance that they can 

 be heard-, Though it may be, they make them to be heard Jefs Way, than 

 in a Still-, as hath been partly touched. 



Over -great Diftance confoundeth the Articulation of Sounds As we fee, 

 that you may hear the Sound ot a Preachers voice, or the like, when you 

 c3nnotdiftingui(hwhat he faith. And one Articulate S ound will confound 

 another \ as when many fpeak at once. 



In the Experiment of Speaking under Water, when the Voice is reduced to 

 fuch an Extreme Exility , yet the Articulate Sounds, (which are the Words) 

 are not confounded ; as hath been faid, 



I conceive, that an Extreme Smaller an Extreme Great Sound, cannot be 

 Articulate ; But that the Articulation requireth a Mediocrity of Sound : For 

 that the Extreme Small Sound confoundeth the Articulation by Contracting j 

 And the Great Sound, by Di/perfing: And although (as was formerly faidj 

 a Sound Articulate, already created, will be contracted into a fmall Crany 

 yet the fir ft Articulation requireth more Dimenfion. 5 

 It hath been obferved, that in a Room, or in a Chapelt, Vaulted be- 

 low, and Vaulted likewife in the Roof, a Preacher cannot be beard fo 

 well, as in the like Places not fo Vaulted. TheCaufeis, for that the Sub- 

 Jequent Words come on, before the Precedent Words vanifti : And therefore 

 the Articulate Sounds are more confufed, though the Grofsof the Soundbe 

 greater. 



The Motions of the T ongue, Lips, Throat, Palate, &c. which goto the Ma- 

 king of the feverall Alphaheticall Letters, are worthy Enquiry, and pertinent 

 to the prefent Inquifition of Sounds : But becaufe they are fubtill, and long 

 to defenbe, we will referr them over, and place them amongft the Experi- 

 ments of Speech. The Hebrews have been diligent in it, and have afligned, 

 which Letters weLabtall, which Dent all, which Gutturaff, &c. As for the 

 Latines, and Grecians, they have diftinguilhed between Semi-vowels? and 

 Mutes ; And in Mutes, between Muta Tenues, MedU, and Ajpirau ; Not 

 amifs} But yet not diligently enough. For the fpeciall Strokes, and Mo 

 tions, thn create thofe Sounds, they have little enquired As that the Letters 

 B* P.F. ii/.arenotexprefled, but with the Contracting, ox Shutting of the 

 Mouth; That the Letters N. and#. cannot be pronounced, but that the 

 Letter, N. will turn into M. As Hecatonba, will be H* cat omba. That 

 M. and T. cannot be pronounced together but P. -will come between 

 as Emtm, is pronounced Emptus $ And a number of the like. So that 

 if you enquire to the full you will find, that to the Making of the 

 whole Alphabet, there will be fewer Simple Motions required, than there' 

 ate Letters^ 



The Lungs are the moft Spongy Part of the Body 5 And therefore 

 ableft to contraband dilate it ielf-, And where it contracteth it 

 felf, it expel! eth the Air; which thorow the Art ire , Throat, and 

 Mouth, maketh the Voice : But yet Articulation is not made, but with 



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