Century VIII. 



forwards to their Hils 5 And Bees do (admirably) know the way from a 

 Flowry Heath,two or three Miles off, to their Hives. It may be,Gnats, and 

 Flies, have their Imagination more mutable, and giddy , as Small Birds like- 

 wife have. It is faid by fome of the Ancients, that they have onely the Senfe 

 of Feeling • which ismanifeftly untrue 5 For if they go forth right to a 

 Place,they muft needs have Sight: Befides, they delight more in one Flow- 

 er, or Hew, than in another, and therefore have Tafle : And Bees are called 

 with Sound upon Bra/, and therefore they have Hearing : Which fheweth 

 likewife that though their fy/WttbedifTufed, yet there is a S<?*£ of their 

 Senfes in their Head. 



Other Obfervations concerning the Inle£ta , together with the Enumeration 

 ofihem,we referre to that place jvhere we mean to handle the Title of Animal's in 

 general. 



P^Man Leapeth better with Weights, in his Hands, than without. The Caufe 

 is, for that the freight, (if it be proportionable, ) ftrengtheneth the Si- 

 newes, by Contracting them. For otherwifc, where no Contraction is needful, 

 Weight hindreth. As we fee in Horf-Races,Men are curious to fore-fee, that 

 there be not the leaft freight , upon the one Hor[e , more than upon the o- 

 ther.In Leaping with Weights, the Arms are firft caft backwards, and then 

 forwards,with fomuch the greater Force:For the Hands go backward be- 

 fore they take their Raife. jguare, if the contrary Motion of the Spirits,im- 

 mediately before the Motion we intend , doth not caufe the Spirits, as ic 

 were to break forth with more Force : As Breath alfo drawn , and kept in, 

 cometh forth more forcibly: And in Caflingof any Thing, the Arms,to make 

 a greater Swing, are firft caft backward. 



OF Mujicall Tones, and Unequal Sounds , we have fpoken before 5 But 

 touching the Pleasure and Difpleafure of the Senfes, not fo fully. Harjh 

 Sounds, as of a Saw, when it is fharpned j Grinding of one Stone againft ano- 

 ther ', Squeaking , or Shiching Noife $ make a Shivering or Horrour in the Bo- 

 ^f,and fet the Teeth on edge. TheGaa/Hs, for that the ObjeBsoi the Fare, 

 do affed the S^W«(immediatly) moft with Pleasure and Offence.We fee^ 

 there is no Colour that affccteth the Eye much with Difpleafure : There be 

 Sights , that are Horrible, becaufe they excite the Memory of Things that are 

 Odious, or Fearful; But the fame Things Painted do little affe6t. As for Smels, 

 Tafies, and T suches^hcy be Things that do afFecl:, by a Participation^* Impul- 

 sion of the Body,o{ the Objebl.So it is S o«Walone,that doth immediatly,and 

 incorporeally afFecl: moft : This is moft manifeft in Mufick; and Concords 

 and Difcords in Mufique :For all Sounds, whether they be fharp, or Flat, if 

 they be Swecr,have a Roundnefs and Equality ; And if they be Harfh, are 

 Unequal: For a Discord it felf is bu t a Harfhnef of Dhers Sounds Meeting. 

 It is true,that Inequality, not Stayed upon,bur Palling, is rather an Encreafe 

 of Sweetnefs ; As in the Purling of a Wreathed String j And in the Paucity of 

 a Trumpet; And in the Nightingale- Pipe of a fog*//; And in a Difcord ftraight 

 falling upon a Concord: But if you ftay upon it , it is Ofj'enfive ; And therc- 

 forc,there be thcfe three Degrees of Pleafing^nA Difpleafing in Scunds ; Sweet 

 Sounds 1 Difcords ; and Harfh Sounds , which we call by divers Names , as 

 Shiching , or Grating , fuch as we now fpeak of. As for the Setting of the 

 Teeth on Edge , we plainly fee what an inter courfe there is , between the 

 Teeth, and the Organ of the Hearing^ the Taking of the End of abow,be- 

 twcen the Teeth, and Strtkingxxyati the Strug- 



O N A- 



Experiment 

 Solitary tou- 

 ching leaping. 

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Experiment 

 Solitary tou- 



the 



Tleafures, and 

 Difplcafares of 

 the Senfes '6 

 fpecially of 

 Heaiing. 



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