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IN Major Head's “Forest Scenes” (London, 1829, p. 205), I have found the passage already quoted by Mr. C. Tomlinson (p. 78, ante), subjoined with this phrase: “It being, in real fact and without metaphor, the voice of winds imprisoned on the bosom of the deep.” In a similar manner, Olaus Magnus describes the similar sounds thus: “Mais es lacs Septentrionaus gelés, on oit sous la glace une tempête aussi horrible, à raison des vens enfermés sous la glace, qu'on fait d'un tonnerre provenant de la grãde épesseur des nuës.” (“Histoire des pays Septentrionaus,” Paris, 1561, fol. 21, b).
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MINAKATA, K. Remarkable Sounds. Nature 53, 317 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/053317d0
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