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Minor Notes.
_Distances at which Sounds have been heard._--The story of St. Paul's clock
striking being heard by a sentry at Windsor is well known, and I believe
authentic. Let me add the following:--The Rev. Hugh Salvin (who died vicar
of Alston, Cumberland, Sept. 28, 1852) mentions an equally remarkable
instance whilst he was chaplain on board H.M.S. "Cambridge," on the coast
of South America:
"Our salutes at Chancay were heard at Callao, though the distance is
thirty-five miles, and several projecting headlands intervene, and the
wind always blows northward. The lieutenant of the Arab store-ship, to
whom the circumstance was mentioned, observed, that upon one occasion
the evening gun at Plymouth was heard at Ilfracomb, which is sixty
miles off, and a mountainous country intervenes."--_Journal of the Rev.
H. S. Salvin_, p. 64., 12mo.: Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1829.