of 0 XFO %p^S HIT^E, ty 
makes no refponfe : and indeed, it would be matter of won- 
der if it (liould, fince no one fide of that Cloyfter comes near 
the diftanceaffigned for the return of a fy liable, whereas that at 
He Jdingt on juii equdls it, and one fide of New College much ex- 
ceeds it. 
32. Other Echo's there be that belong to this place, as Echo's 
upon Echo's^ and fuch as my Lord Verulam^ ftiles back-Echo's ; 
of which, becaufe I have met with none confiderable, I am con- 
tent to pafs them by, having fufficiently, as I fuppofe, by this 
time tired the Readers patience with too tedious a confideration 
of fo particular a fubjeft, and make hafte to treat of the Air of 
Oxford-Jhm^ as it ftands in reference toSicknefs or Health. But 
all Air of it felf being equally pure, and only accidentally good 
or bad, accordingly as more or lefs filled with wholfom or noxi- 
ous vapors afcending from the Waters, or moift Earths ; I refer 
its confideration to the next Chapter^ to which it feems more in- 
timately and originally to belong: it being the opinion of Hippo- 
Crates^ and on all hands agreed. That Waters are of much more 
concernment in reference to health than the Air can be, becaufe 
they areas it were part of our aliment, and the Air notfo ; and 
may be of themfelves fundamentally bad, whereas the Air is only 
fo by participation, 
* There k much fu^ch another as this, m the Ba/UCeurt at Corpus Chrifti Coll. y Nat. Hifi, Cent, 5, 
Num. 2+9, 250. 
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