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From Meteors I will passe to the elevation of the poles. See "An
Almanack, 1580, made for the Meridian of Salisbury, whose longitude is
noted to bee ten degrees, and the latitude of the elevation of the
Pole Arctick 51 degrees 47 minutes. By John Securis, Maister of Art
and Physick". To which I will annexe the title of another old
almanack, both which were collected by Mr. Will. Lilly. "Almanack,
1580, compiled and written in the City of Winchester, by Humphrey
Norton, Student in Astronomic, gathered and made for the Pole Arctik
of the said city, where the pole is elevated 51 degrees 42 minutes".
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I come now to speak of ECHOS:-
"Vocalis Nymphe; qu? nec reticere loquenti
Nec prior ipsa loqui didicit, resonabilis Echo.
Ille fugit; fugiensque manus complexibus aufert."
- OVID, METAMORPH. lib. iii.
But this coy nymph does not onely escape our hands, but our sight, and
wee doe understand her onely by induction and analogic. As the motion
caused by a stone lett fall into the water is by circles, so sounds
move by spheres in the same manner, which, though obvious enough, I
doe not remember to have seen in any booke.
None of our ecchos in this country that I hear of are polysyllabicall.
When the Gospels or Chapters are read over the choire dore of Our Lady
Church in Salisbury, there is a quick and strong monosyllabicall echo,
which comes presently on the reader's voice: but when the prayers are
read in the choire, there is no echo at all.
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