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dapting of Sounds, away may be found out, both 

 to improve Mufical Inftruments already in ufe, 

 and to invent new ones, that flialJ be more fweec 

 and lulcious, than any yet known. Be fides that, 

 by the fame means Inftruments may be made, 

 that (hall imitate any Sound in Nature, that is 

 not Articulate, be it of Bird, Bealt, or what 

 thing elfe foever. 



2. The Conveying and Propagating (which is a 

 kind of Conferring) of Sounds, is much help'd 

 by duly placing the Sonorous Body, and alio by the 

 Medium. 



For if the Medium be Thin and Quiefcent, and 

 the Sounding Body placd conveniently, the Sound 

 will be eafily and regularly propagated, and 

 mightily conferv'd. i lay, 



I. If the Medium be Thin and Qtiiefcentj becaufe 

 it otherwife caufes a P^efraHed Sound,, of which 

 afterwards. Hence in a [till Evening, or the 

 dead of the Night ( when the Wind cezfes) a Sound 

 is better lent out, and to a greater diftance than 

 otherwife,' tho' much of this may be afcrib'd to 

 its Refraction alfb. 



Z. I fay, that the Sonorous Body mujl he placd 

 conveniently, near a Smooth Wall, near Water, or 

 a Plain, whole Surface is even. 



i. Near a Smooth Wall, either Plain or Arch'd 

 (Cycloidically or Elliptically, rather than other- 

 wife, tho* a Circular or any Arch will do, but 

 not fb welU 



Hence in a Church, the nearer the Preacher 

 ftands to the Wall (and certainly 'tis much the 

 beft way to place Pulpits near the Wall) the 

 better is he heard, efpecially by thofe who ftand 

 near the Wall alio, though at a greater di- 

 ftance from the Pulpit; thofe at the remoteft 

 end of the Church, by laying their Ears ibme* 



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