Bacon, Francis, Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries

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            ther there be any ſuch reſilience in Eccho’s (that is, Whether a Ma
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            n ſhall
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            hear better, if he ſtand aſide the Body repercuſſing, than iſ he ſtand where
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            he ſpeaketh, or any where in a right Line between) may betried; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2622" xml:space="preserve">Tryal like-
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            wiſe would be made, by ſtanding nearer the place of repercuſſing, than he
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            that ſpeaketh; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2623" xml:space="preserve">and again, by ſtanding further off, than he that ſpeaketh, and
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            ſo knowledge would be taken, whether Eccho’s, as well as Original Sounds,
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            be not ſtron geſt near hand.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2625" xml:space="preserve">There be many places, where you ſhall hear a number of Eccho’s one
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0091-01" xlink:href="note-0091-01a" xml:space="preserve">246.</note>
            after another; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2626" xml:space="preserve">and it is, when there is variety of Hills or Woods, ſome nearer,
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            ſome ſurther off: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2627" xml:space="preserve">So that the return from the further, being laſt created, will
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            be likewiſe laſt heard.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2629" xml:space="preserve">As the Voice goeth round, as well towards the back, as towards the
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0091-02" xlink:href="note-0091-02a" xml:space="preserve">247.</note>
            front of him that ſpeaketh; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2630" xml:space="preserve">ſo likewiſe doth the Eccho, for you have many
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            Back-eccho’s to the place where you ſtand.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2632" xml:space="preserve">To make an Eccho that will report three, or four, or five words
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0091-03" xlink:href="note-0091-03a" xml:space="preserve">248.</note>
            dinſtinctly, it is requiſite, that the Body repercuſſing be a good diſtance
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            off: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2633" xml:space="preserve">For if it be near, and yet not ſo near, as to make a Concurrent
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            Eccho, it choppeth with you upon the ſudden. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2634" xml:space="preserve">It is requifite likewiſe,
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            that the Air be not much pent: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2635" xml:space="preserve">For Air, at great diſtance, pent, work-
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            eth the ſame effect with Air at large, in a ſmall diſtance. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2636" xml:space="preserve">And there-
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            ſore in the Tryal of Speaking in the Well, though the Well was deep,
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            the Voice came back ſuddenly, and would bear the report but of two
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            words.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2638" xml:space="preserve">From Eccho’s upon Eccho’s, there is a rare inſtance thereof in a
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0091-04" xlink:href="note-0091-04a" xml:space="preserve">249.</note>
            place, which I will now exactly deſcribe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2639" xml:space="preserve">It is ſome Three or four
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            Miles from Paris, near a Town called Pont-Carenton; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2640" xml:space="preserve">and ſome Bird-
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            bolt ſhot or more from the River of Sean. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2641" xml:space="preserve">The Room is a Chappel,
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            or ſmall Church; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2642" xml:space="preserve">the Walls all ſtanding, both at the ſides, and at the
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            ends; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2643" xml:space="preserve">two rows of Pillars after the manner of Iſles of Churches, alſo
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            ſtanding; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2644" xml:space="preserve">the Roof all open, not ſo much as any Embowment near
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            any of the Walls left. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2645" xml:space="preserve">There was againſt every Pillar, a ſtack of Bil-
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            lets above a Mans height, which the Watermen, that bring Wood
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            down the Sean, in Stacks, and not in Boats, laid there (as it ſeemeth)
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            for their eaſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2646" xml:space="preserve">Speaking at the one end, I did hear it return the Voice
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            Thirteen ſeveral times; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2647" xml:space="preserve">and I have heard of others, that it would re-
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            turn Sixteen times; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2648" xml:space="preserve">for I was there about three of the Clock in the After-
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            noon; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2649" xml:space="preserve">and it is beſt, (as all other Eccho’s are) in the Evening. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2650" xml:space="preserve">It is
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            manifeſt, that it is not Eccho’s from ſeveral places, but a toſſing of the
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            Voice, as a Ball too and fro; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2651" xml:space="preserve">like to Reflexions in Looking-Glaſſes; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2652" xml:space="preserve">where
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            if you place one Glaſs before, and another behinde, you thall ſee the Glaſs
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            behinde with the Image, within the Glaſs before; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2653" xml:space="preserve">and again, the Glaſs
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            before in that: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2654" xml:space="preserve">And divers ſuch Super-Reflexions, till the Species ſpeciei at
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            laſt die: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2655" xml:space="preserve">For it is every return weaker, and more ſhady. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2656" xml:space="preserve">In like manner,
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            the Voice in that Chappel, createth Speciem ſpeciei, and maketh ſucceeding
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            Super-Reflexions; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2657" xml:space="preserve">for it melteth by degrees, and every Reflexion is
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            weaker than the former: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2658" xml:space="preserve">So that, if you ſpeak three words, it will (per-
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            haps) ſome three times report you the whole three words; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2659" xml:space="preserve">and then the
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            two latter words for ſometimes, and then the laſt word alone for ſome-
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            times, ſtill fading and growing weaker. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2660" xml:space="preserve">And whereas in Eccho’s of
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            one return, it is much to hear Four or five words. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2661" xml:space="preserve">In this Eccho of
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            ſo many Returns, upon the matter, you hear above Twenty words for
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            three.</s>
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