of 0 XFo %p^S Hl%E. 7 
Reader with fome of the fports of Nature, and entertain him a- 
while with the Nymph Echo ; a Miftrefs (lie is indeed that is ea- 
fily Ipoke with, yet known to few ; if therefore I take pains to 
acquaint him with her, I hope I (liall not perform a thanklefs of- 
fice. 
1 4. Firft therefore, that Philechus may not be out in his choice, 
whenever he attempts to court her in Oxford-Jhire, he muft know 
that of thefe there are feveral forts, and may beft, I fuppofe, be 
diftinguifli'd by their Objects, which are, 
Single^ fuch as return the voice but once ; and thefe again 
either^ are either 
'Polyfyllahical ^ fuch as return many fyllables^ 
words, or a whole fentence. 
Tonkah fuch as return the voice but once, nor 
that neither, except adorned with fome pe- 
culiar Mufical note. 
Manifold^ and thefe return fyllables and words, the fame 
oftentimes repeated, and may therefore be ftiled Tau^ 
iological Echo's^ which are caufed 
either by ^^^^^^^^ Reflexion » 
15. As for Polyjyllahical articulate Echo's^ the ftrongeft and 
beft I have met with here, is in the Park at Woodjiock.^ which in 
the day time, little wind being ftirring, returns very diftindly 
feventeen fyllables, and in the night twenty ; I made experiment 
of it with thefe words, 
— Qud£ nec retkere loquefiti^ 
Nec prwr iffa loqui didkit refonabilps Echo. 
In the day it would return only the laft verfe, but in the night a- 
bout twelve by the clock, I could alfo hear the laft word of the 
foxmet Hemi/ikk. [loquenti.'] The objed of which or the 
Centrum phonocamftkum^ I take to be the hill with the trees on the 
fummit of it, about half a mile diftant from Woodflock town, m 
the way thence to the Right Honorable the Earl of Rochejief^ 
Lodge : And the true place of the Speaker, or Centrum fhonkum^ 
the 
