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it of Bird, Beaft, or what thing elfe foever. 
2.1h.e Conveying 2ind Propagating C which is a kind of 
Conferving ) of Sounds, is much help'd by duly placing thi 
^ Sonorous Body, and alfo by the Medium. 
For if the Medium be Thin and ^iefcent, and the 
Sounding body placd conveniently, the ^:;ound will be eali- 
ly and regularly propagated,and mightily conferv d.lfay^ 
I . If the Medium be Thin and ^luiefcent-^ becaule it other- 
wife cauieth a l{efraUed Sound , of which afterwards. 
Hence in a Still Evening or the dead of the night (whtvi the 
wind ceafes ) a Sound is better fent out and to a greater 
diftance, then otherwife ; though much of this may be 
afcrib'd to it's l^fraBiomXio. 
2. 1 fay, that xhc Sonorous Sody muji be placd convenient- 
ly, naar a Smoth wall, near Water, or a Plain, wiiofe fur- 
face is even. 
i.]<iQar a Smooth wall, either Plane or Arch'd ("Cyclo- 
idically or Ellipticafly, rather then otherwife; though a 
Circular or any Arch will do j but not fo well. ) 
Hence in a Church, the nearer the Preacher ftands to 
the wall ( and certainly tis much the beft way to place 
Pulpits near the walU the better is he heard, efpeciallyby 
thofe, who ftand near the wall alto, though at a greater 
diftance from the Pulpits thofe at the remoteft end of 
the Church, by laying their i'^rj- fomewhat clofe to the 
j wall, may hear him t afier then thofe in the middle, 
j ^ Hence alfo do arife T^^hifpering places. For the voice be- 
') ing applied to one end of aiiArch,eafily rouls to the other. 
And indeed were th^ motion and propagation of ^lounds 
but rightly underffood, 'twouid be no hard matter to con- 
tr'iv tWhifperifig places of infinite variety and ufe. And 
perhaps there could be nobetteror more plealant hea- 
J ring a Confort ofMujlcl^, then at fach a place as this; where 
: the Sounds rouling long together, before they come to 
|the£«r, muft needs coofolidate and imbody into one; 
j which becomes a true compofition of Sounds, and is the 
' rery life and foul of Conforr, 2. 
