MICROGRAPHIA.. 5 
furrow behind it. And though Nature does feem to do it very réadily in , 
all kinds of fluid bodies, yet perhaps future obfervators may 'difcovér 
‘even thofealfo rugged; it being very probable, as! elfewherethew, that | 
fluid bodies are made up of {mall folid particles varioufly and itrongly 
mov’d, and may find reafonto think there is fcarce a furface im rernm: ma 
turd perfectly {mooth. The black fpot 2, I ghefs to be fome {mall 
{peck of ruft, for that I have oft obferv'd to be the manner of the working: 
" of Corrofive Juyces. Toconclude, this Edge and piece of a Razor, if lit 
had been really fuch as it appear'd through the A@ero/cope, would {carce- 
ly have fery’d to cleave wood, much lefs to have cut off the hair of beards, 
cunlef{s it were after the manner that Lactan merrily relates Charoz:to have 
made ufe of,when with a Carpenters Axe he chop d off the beard ofafage 
Philofopher, whofe gravity he very cautioufly fear'd would indangerthe 
overletting of his Wherry. «| 10) Horta it .y3ee 
ee: 
~~ Obferv. III, Of fine Lawn, or Linnen Chith, Nod hod 
ci His is another product of Art, A piece of the fineft Lawn I was‘ableé e 3 
© toget; focuriousthat the threads were fearce difcernable by'thena: “* ™ 
ked eye,and yet through an ordinary AGcrofcope you may perceive what 
a goodly: piece of coarfe Afatting it is 3 what proportionable cords each of 
its threads are, being not unlike, both in thape-and fize, the bigger and 
coarfer kind of ingle Rope-yarn,wherewith they ufually make Cables, That 
which makes the Lawn fo tranfparent, is by the Adicroféope, nay ‘by’ the 
naked eye, if attentively viewed, plainly enough evidenced to be the 
multitude of {quare holes which are left between the threads, appearing 
to have much more hole in So i of the intercurrent parts thenis for thé 
mroft part left in a /attice-window, which it does a little refemble, onely 
the crofling parts are round andnot flat. : 7 Loved wing 
Thefe threads that compofe this fine contexture, though’ they ate-ag 
fmall asthofe that conftitute the finer forts of Silks, have notwithftanding 
nothing of their gloflie, pleafant,and lively reflection. Nay, Ihave been 
informed both by the Inventor himfelf, and feveral other eye-witnefles, 
that though the dekene of which it is made,has béen (by afingular art, of | 
that excellent Perfon, and Noble Vertuofo, M. Char/s Howard, brother to 
the Duke of Norfolk){6 curioully dte@’d and’ prepar d,astoappear both to 
the eye and the touch, full as fize and as gloffie, and to receiveallkinds = 
of colours,as well as Sleave-Silk ; yet when this Silken Flax:is ewilted into‘ 
threads, it quite lofeth its formerlufter, and becomes.as plainand bafe 
a thread to look on, as one of the fame bignefs, made of common Flaxi!°¥ 
Thereafon of which odd Phexomenon {eems no other then this. that! 
thoupiesie curloufly dreft Flax has its parts forexceedinglpfmall, as to’ 
equallize, if not to be much fmaller then the clew of the Silk-worm, efpex 
cially in thinnefs, yet the differences between: the figuresiof the tonitisi 
tuting filaments are fo great, and =n cesigimumeats fo,various, that ae 
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