Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1893 — Wonderful Echoes. [ARTICLE]

Wonderful Echoes.

In the Roman Campagna, at the sepulchre of Metella, wife of Sulla, there is an echo which reports five times, each being in a different key. It will also repeat a hexameter line, or another sentencewhich can be spoken in two and a half seconds. On the banks of the river Naha, between Bingen and Coblentz, there is an. echo capable of repeating a sentence seventeen different times. A peculiarity of this echo is that, although the original word or sentence be uttered in a, whisper, yet the volume of sound increases many folds in the echo. In the chapel of the Abercorn family,, at Paisley, the closing of the door produces a sound which roars like distant, thunder. The echo at the “Eagle’s nest,” Killarnev, Ireland, repeats a bugle note at. least 100 times. Between the two wings of the castle of Simonetta two miles out from Milan, the report of a pistol shot is repeated, sixty times. At the.same place a single musical instrument produces the effee of a full orchestra.

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