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For Eecho’s vpon Eccho’s , there is a rare In fiance thereof in a Place, 
which I will now cxa&Iv deferibe. It is fome three or foure Miles from 
Paris, necre a Towne called Point-chare nt on s And fome Bird-bolt fhot, 
or more, from the Riuer of Scans. The Roome is a Chappell, or fmall 
Church. The Walls all landing, both at the Sides, and at the Ends. Two 
Rowes of Pillars, after the manner of Idas o£ Churches , alfo (landing ; 
TheRoofe all open, not fo much as an)^nbowment ncere any of the 
walls left. There was againft euery Pillar, a Stacke of Billets, aboue a 
Mans Height ; Which the Watermen, that bring Wood downe the 
Seansiw Stacks, and not in Boats, laid there (as itleemeth) for their 
ea(e. SpeakingattheoneEnd, Ididheareit returne the Voice thirteene 
(euerall times; And I haue heard of others, that it would returne fix- 
teene times: For I was there about three of the Clocke in the After- 
noone : And it is bed (as all other Eccho’s are) in theEuening. It is ma- 
nifeft, that it is not Eccho’s from feuerall places, but a To fling of the Voice, 
as a Ball, to and fro; Like to Reflexions inLooking-GlaJfes •, where if you 
place one GlaJJ'e before, and another behind, you fhall fee the Glajje be¬ 
hind with the Image, within the Glajje before. And againe, the Glajfe 
before in that; and diners fuch Super-Reflexions, till the Jpecies JJeciet at 
iaftdie. For it is euery Returne weaker, and mote fhady. In like maner, 
th t Voice in that Cappell, createth jjecitemjpeciei, and maketh fucceeding 
Super-Reflexions ; For it melteth by degrees, and euery Reflexion is 
weaker than the former: So that if youfpeake three Words, it will (per- 
haps) fome three times report you the whole three Words; And then 
the two latter Words for fome times; And then the laft Word alone for 
fometimes; Still fading and growing weaker. And whereas in Eccho’s 
of one Returne, it is much to heare foure or flue Words; In this Eccho 
of fo many Returnes, vpon the matter, you heare aboue twenty Words 
for three. . ' :.h . 
The like Eccho vpon Eccho t but onely with two Reports, hathbeene 
obferuedto be, if you (land betweenea Houfe , and a Hill, and lure to¬ 
wards the Hill. For the Houfe will giue a Back-Eccho h One taking it 
from the other, and the latter the weaker. 
There are certaine Letters, that an Eccho will hardly expreffe; As S. 
for one; Efpecially beingPrincipallina Word. I remember well, that 
when I went to the Eccho at Pont-Charemon , there was an QldParifian, 
thattookeit to the Worke of Spirits. And of good Spirits. For ((aid 
he) call Satan, and the Eccty, will not deliuerbacke the Deuilsname* 
But will fay, Vat’ cn • Which is as much in French , as Apags, or Auotd. 
And thereby I did hap to finde, that an Eccho would aot returne ^ be¬ 
ing but a Hiding and an Interiour Sound. 
Eccho’s are fome more fudden, and chop againe, asfooneas the Voice 
is deliuered; As hath beene partly faid: Others are more deliberate that 
is, giue more Space betweene the Voice and the Eccho , which is caufed by 
the locall Neereneffe, or Diftance; Some will reporta longer Traine d 
Words* And fome a fborter -.Some more loud (full as loud as the Ori* 
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