Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1833-03-14
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which VIC are made acquainted with the
thoughts Of others. Sounds introduced
into the ear glide along numerous cavities,
follow multitude of windings, during
which they put in play various wonderful
contrivances, and experience different re-
Elections before they arrive at the soul, and
bring it acquainted with what is passing in
the mind otanother. The correspondence
established between the nerves of the
mouth and the ear, is a part of this surpris-
ing symmetrical arrangement for certain
end. 1t is admirable says Willis, that
the voice i'll accord with the hearing, is, SO
to say, its echo; and that what we hear
by means of one of these sets of nerves, the
voice expresses by the other
The varied forms of the ears Of animals,
would alone make the subject of very
curious book. The ass points his, like
horn, in the direction whence the sound is
heard. That of the tmid hare is of won
dertul structure, and serves him, if may
so say, to reconnoitre the enemy. The
mole, plunged in his obscure passages of
the earth, has no need of keen sight. But
to warn him of the approach of enemies,
and that the ears may not be obstructed by
earth, they have, for second covering, a
slight membrane, which the little miner
has the power to open or close at viii.
The feeble and timid animals have the
sense of hearing in much higher perfection,
than those that are strong and tierce.-
Hares, rabbits, gazellcs, rats, moles, and
fawns, distinguish the most distant sounds,
and their car seems to be all nerve. Bats
that have a very feeble sight are provided
with great ears, the sensibility of which is
SO exquisite, that by the impression of the
air alone upon them, they are aware when
they are approaching body, and never
strike it even in the greatest darkness
The rhinoceros and hppopo'amns, who
only see in the twilight, have hearing in
great perfection; while the cat, the lynx,
The lion and tiger, have eyes keener of per-
ception, in proportion as their hearing is
more obtuse.
Birds have no external curtains to their
ears. These would have augmented the
weight of their head, and would have inn
peded the swifiness Of their fight. But
they are Unidentified by an interior appa-
ratus of hearing, which, in most birds, is OF
great size.
We might pursue these details of adap-
tation and harmony in the nocturnal birds,
such as the gray owl, the screech owl, and
other birds Of that class; and in various
large birds that live upon the land, as the
cassowary and ostrich; and equally in
those carnivorous birds that perch upor
trees and old walls.
But, to return to man, what sublime
harmony between the air, the ear, and tn
soul between an invisible fluid and tn
wants ola feeble creature, who is great ane
happy only by means Of thought. Nothing
furnishes more impressive example Of
great results from trivial causes, than the
fact that little air, put in motion by the
mouth, is the cause Of peace and war; oil
the one, when proceeding from MASTER
spirit of ambition and cruelty; of the 9TH
err, when inspiring good will among the ma
tons from the mouth of Penn and Fenelon.
II transcends my plan to speak, in con-
clusion, Of that delightful form Of sound.
understanding pain, exulting joy, and
furnishing the most delightful anticipations
Of that heaven, Of the purest joys Of which
music is supposed to constitute 50 essential
part.
Pleasantly in the Senate.-Mr. Tyler
of Virginia, 10 his speech to the Senate last
week, said he was somewhat in the situa-
ton Of the Senator from Maine, (Mr
Holmes) who says he finds himself with
strange bed fellows, and wonders how he
became so thick with them. 1t was singn-
lar indeed, that the Senator should support
and resist the measure Of the present Pre-
sident. He had himself given the admins
tration as liberal a support as it reasonably
could deserve, but could not 60 quite SC
far as the Senator from Maine in approba-
ton of its principles and measures. The
Senator from Tennessee, MIR. Grundy, D
with whom he had recently acted, had
gone over to association with the Senator
from Maine. There was many years an
existing copartnership, under the firm OF
"James Madison, Felix Grundy, John
Holmes, and the Devil" About two years
ago, the copartners called for division o.
profits. The Senator from Tennessee
Withdrew his name, and that of the senior
partner from the firm, declaring that they
would have nothing more to do with the
rest of the concern, and trusting that his
Satanic Majesty would take good care .o
the other partner. He would like to know
the old firm was renewed and still in bu.