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of Glonceften only the Difference between theie. 
two laft was, that to this, holding your Mouth to 
the Side of the Wall, feveral could hear you on the 
other Side 5 the Voice being more diffufed. But, to 
the former, it being a fquare Room, and you whif* 
pering in the Corner, it was only audible in the op- 
polite Corner 5 and not to any Diftance from thence, 
as to Diftindtion of the Words. And this Virtue was 
common to each Corner of the Room, and not con- 
fined to one. 
As to E echoes, there is one at Bruxelles that an- 
fwers fifteen times : But when i was at Milan , I took 
a Coach to go two Miles from thence to a Noble- 
man’s Palace, now not in great Repair, and only a 
Pcafantor Contadine living in one End of it. The 
Building is of fome Length in the Front, and has 
two Wings jetting forwards fo that it wants only 
one Side of an oblong Figure. About an hundred 
Paces before the Houfc, there runs a fmall Brook, 
and that very (lowly ; over which you pafs from the 
Houfe into the Garden. We carried fome Piftols 
with us 5 and, firing one of them, I heard 5 6 Re- 
iterations of the Noifc. The firft twenty were with 
fome Diftindlion 5 but then, as the Noife feemed to 
fiy away, and anfwer at a great Diftance, the Repe- 
tition was fo doubled, as that you could hardly count 
them all 5 feeming as if the principal Sound was fa- 
luted in its Paftage by Reports on this and that Side 
at the fame time. 
There were of our Company that reckoned above 
60 Reiterations when a louder Piftol went off; and 
indeed it was a very grateful Divertifement. But on 
the other Side the Houfe, on the oppofue Wing, it 
would' 
