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culate Sounds, of the Voice of Man, or Birds, will enteratafmall Cran¬ 
ny, Inconfufed. 
The^// equal! Agitation of die Winds, and the like, though they bee 
materiallto the Carriage of the Sounds , further, orle(Ieway 3 yet they 
doe not confound the Articulation of them at all, within that dilfance 
that they can be heard; Though it may be, they make them to be heard 
lelfe Way, than in a Still, as hath beene partly touched. 
Ouer-greatDiftance confoundeth the Articulationof Sounds ; As we 
fee, that you may heare the Sound of a Preachers voice, ot the like, when 
you cannot diftinguifh what he faith. And one Articulate Sounds will 
confound another; As when many lpeake at once. 
In the Experiment of Speaking vnder water, when the Voice is redu¬ 
ced to fuchan Extreme Exility, yet the Articulate sounds, (which are 
the words 3 )are not confounded ; as hath beene faid. 
Iconceiue, that an Extreme Sma ! J, or an Extreme Great Sounds cannot 
be Articulate ; But that the Articulation requireth a Mediocrity of sound: 
For that the Extreme Small Sound confoundeth the Articulation by Con- 
trotting ; And the Great Sound , by Differfing: And although (as was for¬ 
merly laid) a sound Articulate, already created, will be contra&ed into 
a Imall Cranny; yet the firft Articulation requireth more Dimenlion. 
It hath beene obferued, that in a Roome, or in a Chappell , Vaulted be¬ 
low, and Vaulted likewile in the Roofc, a Preacher cannot be heard (o 
well , as in the like Places not lo Vaulted. The Caufe is, for that the Sub - 
fequent words come on, before the Precedent words vanifh: And there¬ 
fore the Articulate sounds are more confuted, though the Groflteof the 
Soundbc greater. 
The Motions of the Tongue, Lips, Throat , P allot % &c. which goe to the 
Makingohhc feuerall Alphabetical!. Letters, are worthy Enquiry, and per¬ 
tinent to the prelent Inquijition of Sounds: But becaufe they are fubtill, 
( and long to deferibe, we will refer them oner, and place them amongft 
the Experiments of Speech. The ILebrewes haue beene diligent in it., and 
hauealfigned, which Letters are Labial!, which DentaH, which Guttural!, 
Sec. AsfortheTar/Wr, and Grecians, they haue diftinguifhedbetweene 
Semivowels, and Mutes ; And in Mutes, bet weene Muta Tenues, Media, 
and Affiyata ; Not amilte; But yet not diligently enough. For the fpe- 
ciall Strokes , and Motions, that create thofe Sounds, they haue little enqui¬ 
red : As that the Letters,B.P.F.M, are not exprefled, but with the Con- 
trotting, or Shutting of the Mouth . That the Letters N. and Z?. cannot be 
pronounced, but that the Letter ZV. will turne into M. As Hecatonba, will 
'be Hecatomba. That M. and T. cannot be pronounced together, but P. 
will come betweene; as Emtua, is pronounced Emptus ; And a Number 
of the like. So that if you enquire to the full; you will finde, that to the 
Making of the whole Alphabet, there will be fewer simple Motions requi¬ 
red, than there are Letters. 
The Lungs are the moft Spongy Part ©f the Body; And therefore 
ableftto contract, and dilate it felfe; And where it contra&cth it felfe, 
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