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

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            made ſtraight, and not obli
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            e
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            k, are ever greater at the lower end. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1894" xml:space="preserve">It would
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            be tryed alſo in Pipes, being made far larger at the lower end, or being
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            made with a Belly towards the lower end, and then iſſuing in to a ſtraight con-
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            cave again.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1896" xml:space="preserve">There is in St
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            . </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1897" xml:space="preserve">Jameſes Fields, a Conduit of Brick, unto which joyneth
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0072-01" xlink:href="note-0072-01a" xml:space="preserve">140.</note>
            a low Vault; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1898" xml:space="preserve">and at the end of that, a round Houſe of Stone; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1899" xml:space="preserve">and in the
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            Brick Conduit there is a Window, and in the round Houſe a Slit or Rift of
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            ſome little breadth; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1900" xml:space="preserve">if you cry out in the Rift, it will make a fearſul roaring
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            at the Window. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1901" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is the ſame with the former: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1902" xml:space="preserve">For that all Con-
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            caves that proceed from more narrow to more broad, do amplifie the Sound
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            at the coming out.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1903" xml:space="preserve"/>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1904" xml:space="preserve">Hawks Bells that have holes in the ſides, give a greater ring, than if the
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0072-02" xlink:href="note-0072-02a" xml:space="preserve">141.</note>
            Pellet did ſtrike upon Braſs in the open Air. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1905" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is the ſame with
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            the firſt inſtance of the Trunck: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1906" xml:space="preserve">Namely, for that the Sound, encloſed
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            with the ſides of the Bell, cometh forth at the holes unſpent and more
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            ſtrong.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1907" xml:space="preserve"/>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1908" xml:space="preserve">In Drums, the cloſeneſs round about, that preſerveth the Sound
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0072-03" xlink:href="note-0072-03a" xml:space="preserve">142.</note>
            from diſperſing, maketh the noiſe come forth at the Drum-hole, far
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            more loud and ſtrong, than if you ſhould ſtrike upon the like skin, ex-
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            tended in the open Air. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1909" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is the ſame with the two prece-
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            dent.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1911" xml:space="preserve">Sounds are better heard, and further off in an Evening, or in the Night,
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0072-04" xlink:href="note-0072-04a" xml:space="preserve">143.</note>
            than at the Noon or in the Day. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1912" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that in the Day, when the
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            Air is more thin (no doubt) the Sound pierceth better; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1913" xml:space="preserve">but when the Air is
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            more thick (as in the Night) the Sound ſpendeth and ſpredeth abroad leſs;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1914" xml:space="preserve">and ſo it is a degree of Encloſure. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1915" xml:space="preserve">As for the night, it is true alſo, that the
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            general ſilence helpeth.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1917" xml:space="preserve">There be two kindes of Reflections of Sounds; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1918" xml:space="preserve">the one at Diſtance, which
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            is the Eccho, wherein the original is heard diſtinctly, and the Reflexion
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            alſo diſtinctly; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1919" xml:space="preserve">of which, we ſhall ſpeak hereafter. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1920" xml:space="preserve">The other in Concur-
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            rence; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1921" xml:space="preserve">when the Sound reflecting (the Reflexion being near at hand) re-
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            turneth immediately upon the original, and ſo iterateth it not, but am-
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            plifieth it. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1922" xml:space="preserve">Therefore we ſee, that Muſick upon the Water ſoundeth
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            more; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1923" xml:space="preserve">and ſo likewiſe, Muſick is better in Chambers Wainſcotted than
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            Hanged.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1925" xml:space="preserve">The Strings of a Lute, or Viol, or Virginals, do give a far greater Sound,
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0072-06" xlink:href="note-0072-06a" xml:space="preserve">145.</note>
            by reaſon of the Knot, and Board, and Concave underneath, than if there
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            were nothing but onely the Flat of a Board, without that Hollow and Knot,
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            to let in the upper Air into the lower. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1926" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, the Communication of
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            the upper Air with the lower, and penning of both ſ
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            rom expence or diſper-
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            ſing.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s1928" xml:space="preserve">An Iriſh Harp hath open Air on both ſides of the Strings; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1929" xml:space="preserve">and it hath
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0072-07" xlink:href="note-0072-07a" xml:space="preserve">146.</note>
            the Concave or Belly, not a long the Strings, but at the end of the Strings.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1930" xml:space="preserve">It maketh a more reſounding Sound, than a Bandora, Orpharion, or Cittern,
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            which have like wiſe Wire-ſtrings. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1931" xml:space="preserve">I judge the cauſe to be, ſor that open Air
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            on both ſides helpeth, ſo that there be a Concave; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1932" xml:space="preserve">which is therefore beſt
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            placed at the end.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1934" xml:space="preserve">In a Virginal, when the Lid is down, it maketh a more exile Sound than
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            when the Lid is open. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1935" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that all ſhutting in of Air, where
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            there is no competent Vent, dampeth the Sound; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1936" xml:space="preserve">which maintaineth like-
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            wiſe the former inſtance: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s1937" xml:space="preserve">For the Belly of the Lute, or Viol, doth pen the
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            Air ſomewhat.</s>
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