3\faturall Hijlorj: 
their fir ft Generations But then the Delation and Com nuance pf them 
without any new Sealing, i'hew apparantiy they cannot be Iinprel- 
lions. f 
All sounds are fuddenly made, and doe fuddenly peril'll . But nei¬ 
ther that,nor the Exquifite Differencesoi them,is Matter offo great Ad¬ 
miration.- For the Quauerings, andWarblings in Lutes, and Pipes, 
are as fwift 5 And the Tongue, ( which is no very fine Inftrument, j 
doth in Speech,make no fewer Mofi©ns,than there be Letters in all the 
Words* which are vttered.But that Sounds fhould not only be fo fpee- 
dily generated, but carried fofarreeuery way, infucha momentanie 
time,delerueth more Admiration. As for Example • If a Man liand in 
the middle of a Field andfpeake aloud, he fhall be heard a Furlong in 
round y And that fhall be in Articulate Sounds ; And rhofe fhall be En¬ 
tire in euery little Portion of the Aire s And this fhall be done in the 
Space of lefle than a Minute. 
The Sudden Genemionand Perijhing of Sounds, muft be one of thefe 
two Wayes. Either that the Aire fuffereth fome Force by Sound • and 
then reftoreth it felfbjAs Water doth y Which being diuided,makech 
many Circles, till it reftore it felfe to the naturall Confiftencc: Or o- 
therwifej that.the Aire doth willingly imbibe the Sound as gratefull 
but cannot maintaine it • For that the Aire hath ( as it fhould feeme j 
a lecret and hidden Appetite of Receiuing the Sound at the firft s But 
then other Grofle and more Materiate Qualities of the Aire ftraight- 
wayes fuffocate it-Like vnto Flame, which is generated with Alacride, 
but ftraight quenched by the Enmitie of the Aire, or other Ambient 
Bodies. 
There be thefe Differences (ingenerall ).by which Sounds 
arediuided j i.Muficall, ImmuficaH ; 1. Treble,Safe s 3. Flat, 
Sharpe y 4 »Soft, Loud y yExteriour, Interiour ; 6 . Qeane, Harfb 
or Purling y 7. Articulate , Inarticulate. 
Wc haue laboured ( as may appeare, ) in this Inquifition of 
Sounds, diligently • Both becau/c Sounds one of the moft Hid¬ 
den Portions of Nature, ( as wefaid in the beginning : ) And 
bccaufe it is a Vertue which may be called Incorporeal, and 
Immateriate; whereof there be in Naturehut few. Befides, we 
were willing, ( now in thefe our firft Centuries, ) to make a 
Patterne or Prcfidcnt of an Exatt Inquifition , And wc fhall 
doe the like hereafter in fome other Subietfts which require it. 
Fas wee defire that Men fhould learnc a/id perceiue, how fe- 
UcreaThing thc true Inquifition q{N atureis j And fhould ac- 
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