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IN connection with Profs. McKenny Hughes and J. P. O'Reilly's letters on the above subject, suggesting the collection of data as to the distance the sound of blasting, &c., has been heard, it may be interesting to state that the blasting operations in the Charnwood Forest quarries (probably Bardon Hill) can be distinctly heard on the higher ground to the south-west of Atherstone, a distance of about eighteen miles. From the intensity of the sound, I have little doubt that under favourable conditions it may be heard very much further.
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FOX-STRANGWAYS, C. Remarkable Sounds. Nature 53, 130 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/053130c0
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