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what clofe to the Wall, may hear him eafier than 

 thofe in the middle. 



Hence alfb do arife Wintering Places. Fcr 

 the Voice being apply d to one end of an/ Arch, 

 eafily rowls to the other. And indeed were the 

 Motion and Propagation of Sounds but rightly un- 

 derftood, 'twould be no hard matter to contrive 

 Whiff ering Places of infinite variety and u(e. And 

 perhaps there could be no better or more pleafant 

 hearing a Conjort of Mufick than at fuch a place 

 as this, where the Sounds rowling along toge- 

 ther, before they come to the Ear, muft needs 

 confolidate and imbody into one ; which becomes 

 a true compofition of Sounds, and is the very 

 Life and Soul of Conlbrr. 



a. If the Sonorous Body be plac'd near Wa- 

 ter, the Sound will eafily be convey'd, yet^ mol- 

 lified ; as Experience teacheth us from a Ring of 

 Bells near a River, and a great Gun mot off at 

 Sea, which yet differ much in the ftrength, and 

 foftnefs and continuance, or propagation of their 

 Sounds, from the lame at Land , where the Sound 

 is more harm and more perifhing, or much foon- 

 er decays. 



3. In a Plain a Voice may be heard at a tar 

 greater diftance than in uneven Ground. 



The Hcafm of all which laft nam d Phanome* 

 72a is the fame ; becaule the Sonorous Air meet- 

 ing with little or no refiftance upon a Plane 

 (much lefs upon an Arch'd) fmooth Superficies, 

 eafily rowls along it, without being let or hm- 

 der'd in its Motion, and confequently without 

 having its parts disfigured, and put into ano- 

 ther kind of Revolution, than what they had 

 at the firft: begetting of the Sound. Which is 

 the true caufe of its Prefervation or PrngreJJion 9 

 and fails much when the Air pafles over -an un- 



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