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VENTRILOQUISM. 283
time of the expiration, and not externally, as is the case in
the usual method of speech : this circumstance may concur
to give a certain character to the voice, as if it came from
afar.
What, in fine, seems to confirm the opinion, that with
the ancients, as well as with us, the whole art of the ventri-
loquist consisted in this voluntary construction of the throat
is, that Hippocrates, in speaking of a particular disorder
in that part, says, that it caused those who were afflicted
with it, to speak as if they had been engastrymithized.-—•
But if this faculty may be acquired by any particular indis-
position of the organ, art, when well directed, may pro-
duce the same effect.
The ignorance of those who have gone before us, with
respect to engastrymism, has not a little contributed to im-
pose upon numbers of persons, not to say that it has been
the origin of a thousand tricks and impositions. Hence we
ought not to be surprised at hearing a number of adven-
tures, each one more singular than the preceding.
AN IMPROVEMENT IN NAVIGATION.
The following account of the origin and progress of the
use of buoys, as marks for vessels, &c. will no doubt amuse
and inform most of our readers. The first account of buoys
being placed as guides to navigators on the coasts of this
island, is in 1538, when they were laid down at the mouth
of the Thames, to point out the situation of the fiats. Since
that time, notwithstanding the accidents which happen in
consequence of their removal by storms or other accidents,
owing in a great means to the clumsy construction of them,
no means have been taken to guard against the continuance
of this evd; nor has any improvement taken place in the
system of buoyage, though much has been done in every
other branch of navigation.
A plan.
time of the expiration, and not externally, as is the case in
the usual method of speech : this circumstance may concur
to give a certain character to the voice, as if it came from
afar.
What, in fine, seems to confirm the opinion, that with
the ancients, as well as with us, the whole art of the ventri-
loquist consisted in this voluntary construction of the throat
is, that Hippocrates, in speaking of a particular disorder
in that part, says, that it caused those who were afflicted
with it, to speak as if they had been engastrymithized.-—•
But if this faculty may be acquired by any particular indis-
position of the organ, art, when well directed, may pro-
duce the same effect.
The ignorance of those who have gone before us, with
respect to engastrymism, has not a little contributed to im-
pose upon numbers of persons, not to say that it has been
the origin of a thousand tricks and impositions. Hence we
ought not to be surprised at hearing a number of adven-
tures, each one more singular than the preceding.
AN IMPROVEMENT IN NAVIGATION.
The following account of the origin and progress of the
use of buoys, as marks for vessels, &c. will no doubt amuse
and inform most of our readers. The first account of buoys
being placed as guides to navigators on the coasts of this
island, is in 1538, when they were laid down at the mouth
of the Thames, to point out the situation of the fiats. Since
that time, notwithstanding the accidents which happen in
consequence of their removal by storms or other accidents,
owing in a great means to the clumsy construction of them,
no means have been taken to guard against the continuance
of this evd; nor has any improvement taken place in the
system of buoyage, though much has been done in every
other branch of navigation.
A plan.