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The Senfe of Smelling is difcuflcd in his Third 
Chapter, wherein he obferves the fame Method as 
in the Two former, in defcribing the Mechanifm of 
the Organs ferving to that Senfe, and accounting for 
the Conveyance of Odours to thofe Organs ; and for 
the Stimulus of fome odoriferous Particles caufing 
Tears to flow, as well as Sneezing caufed by a glaring 
Light ,• and, after making fome Refledions on the 
many Effeds of Smells upon the Human Body, and 
the exquifite Senfe of Smelling in fome Animals, he 
recites the Story told by Sir K. ‘Digby, of the Boy 
brought up in a Foreft, whofe Smell was fo exquifite 
as to perceive the Approach of Enemies, and warn his 
Parents of them. Our Author found this Story ele- 
gantly told, and reafoned upon, in Monfieur Verducs 
Book called, Ufage des ‘Parties. He alfo mentions 
the Perfedion of Smelling in the Inhabitants of the 
Antibes, who can run a Man upon the Nofe like 
an Hound 5 and concludes this Sedion with a Relation 
of a Frier of Prague , from the Journals des Scavans , 
who could not only diftinguifh different Perfons from 
each other by Smelling, but alfo an incontinent Wo- 
man from a chafte one 5 and adds, in a joking Strain, 
that this Man had begun a Treatife of Odours before 
he died, which the Journaliffs much regretted the 
Lofs of: But, fays Monfieur le Cat , for my part, I do 
not know but a Perfon fo exquifite in this kind of 
Knowledge would be dangerous in Society. 
He proceeds next to treat of Hearing , and brings 
under that Head the whole Mechanifm and Dodrine 
of Sounds $ the Vibrations of all founding Bodies : 
And from the Experiment of holding a Candle near 
any vibrating or founding Body, without the Flame’s 
