Great Echoes.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 41, 18 February 1904, Page 4

Great Echoes.

The suspension bridge across the Menai Straits, in Wales, produces OQe of the most remarkable echoes in, the world. The sound of a blow hammer on one of the main piers 13 returned in succession from each of th» crossbeams which support the roadway, and from the opposite pier at the distance of 576 feftcW addition to which the sound la many times repeated between, the water and roadway at the rate of twenty-eight, times in five seconds. An equally remarkable echo is that of the,,castle of Simonetta, a nobleman's seat, about five miles from Hilan.. The report of a pistol is repeated by ? this echo sixty times. A singular echo is also heanl in a grotto near Castle Comber, in Ireland. In the garden of the Tuileries, in Paris, is an artificial echo, which repeats a whole verse without the - loss of a single syllable. Another wonderful echo is heard outside the Shipley Church in Sussex, which echoes some twenty syl in the most perfect manner. The well-known echo at Woodstock repeats itself no fewer than fifty times. In one part of the Pantheon so great is toe echo that the striking together of the palms of the hands is said to make -a report equal to that of a twclTe-pouifd cannon.