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Experiments 
in Confort, 
touching the 
Lifting & Peri- 
fhingtf Sounds ; 
And touching 
the Time they 
require totheir 
Generation ,or 
Dilation . 
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3\(aturall History: 
thanVpwards. Pulpits arc placed high aboue the People. And when the 
Ancient Gentrails fpake to their Armies, they had euer a; Mount of Turfe 
caft vp, whereupon they ftood : But this may bee imputed to the Stops 
and Obftacles,which the voice meeteth with,when one fpeaketh vpon the 
leuell. But there feemeth to bee more in it: For it may bee, that spiritual 
Species , both of Things Tijibleand Sounds y doe moue better Downemrds j 
than Vpmrds. It is a llrange Thing, that to Men handing below on the j 
Ground, thofe that bee on the Top of Pauls, feeme much lefle than they I 
are, and cannot bee knowne 5 But to Men aboue, thole below feeme no¬ 
thing (o much leffened, and may be knowne, yet it is true, that all things j 
to them aboue, leeme alfo fomewhat contracted, and Better collected 
into Figure : As Knits in Gardens (hew belt from an Vppet- window, or 
Tarras. 
But to make an exaCt Triallof it, let a Man hand in a chamber, not 
much aboue the Ground, and fpeake out at the window, thorow a Trunke, 
to one handing on the ground, asfoftlv asheecan, the other laying his 
Eareclole to the Trunk* / Then via verfa, let the other fy&ke below kee¬ 
ping the lame Proportion of Softnelfe, And let himm the Chamber lay 
his Eareto the Trunk*: And this maybeetheapte(tMeanes,comakea 
ludgement, whether Sounds delccnd, or afeend, better. 
A Fter that Sound is created (which is in a moment) wee finde it con- 
tinuedi fome fmall time, melting by Iittieand little. In this there is 
awonderfull Errour amongft Men, who take this to bee a Continuance ol 
the Firft Sound : whereas (in truth) it is a Renouition 3 and not a Continu¬ 
ant* : For the Body percuffed, hath by reafon of the Percuflion , a Tnpidation 
wrought in the Minute Parts 5 andfo reneweth the Percujjioh ofthe Air*. 
This appeareth manifeftly, becaufe that the Melting Sound ’of a Beil, or 
0fa String ftrucken, which is thought to be a Continuance , ccafeth as loon 
as the Bell or String are touched. As in a Virginail, asfoone as euer the 
Iacke falleth ; and toucheth the String, the Sound ceafeth $ Andin a Bell 
after you haue chimed vpon it, ifyou touch the Bell, the swwicealeth. 
Andin this you muft diftinguifh^ that there are two Trepidations : The 
one Manifeft and Locall j Asof the Bell, when it ispcnfile : The other 
Sccrer,of the Minute Parts s fuch as is described in the ninth Inftance.But 
it is true, that the Locall helpeth the secret greatly. Wee lee likewife that 
in Pipes, and other wind-Inftruments, the SoundUftc th no longer, than 
the breath bloweth. It is true, that in Organs, there is a confuted Murmur 
for a while, after you haue plaied ; But that is but while the Beilowes are j 
in Falling. 
It is certaine, that in the Noife of great Ordnance , where mapy" 
are fhot off together, the Sound will bee carried, (atrhekaft) twenty 
Miles vpon the Land^ and much further vpon the Water. But then it 
will come to theEare • Not in the Inftant of the Shooting otf, but it 
will come an Houre, or more later. This mull needs bee a Continuance of 
the Firft Sound i For there is no Trepidation which fhould renew if. And 
the 
