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onely before I leave it, I muft not prétémit ‘to hint that by this Pains 
ciple, multitudes of the Phenomenz of the air,as ‘about Waits, Clouds. Ate2 
teors, Haloes,&c. are mioft plainly and (perhaps)'truly explicablei hiultiz 
tudes alfoofthe Phenomena in colour'd' bodies;“asliquors; 6. are del 
ducible fromit, = eeieserxot 8 10 A an bisodmoedA & 10 
And from this I fhall proceed to 4: fecond eorifiderable Phavoweron 
which thefe Diamants hibit: and that is the'regularity oftheir Freurey 
which isa propriety not lefs general than the former It comprifing with: 
in its extent, all kinds of Azetals, all kinds of Afimerals\mott Precions 4 
all kinds of salts,multitudes of Earthsjand alinoftall kinds of fluid bodiess 
And this is another propiety, which, though a little fuperficially caken 
notice‘of by fome, has not, that I know) beer fo'much. as attempted to 
be explicated by any. | (siizothos ‘islud nino 
~ This propriety of bodies,asI think it the moft worthy, atid next in or- 
der to be confider’d after the contemplation of the Globular Figure, fo 
have I long had a defire as wel asa determination tohavé profecuted it if 1 
had had an oppottunity having long fince propos'd to my felf the method 
of my enquiry thercin, it Containing all the allurements that I think any 
enquiry is capable of: For,firft Ftdkelte to proceed from the moft fimple 
principle that any kind of form can come from, next the Globular.) which 
was therefore the fitft I fet upon, and’ what I have’ therein perfornid, I 
leave the Judicious Reader to determine. For as’ that torm proceeded 
ftom a propiety of fluid bodies, which'I Have alld Congruity, or Tucon- 
grnity; fol think, had I time and oppottunity, I could make probable, 
that all thefe regular Figures that are fo con{picuoully warions anid vari 
ous, and do fo adorn and beautifie fuch multitudes of bodies, 4s I have 
above hinted, arife onely from three or four feveral pofitions or poftures 
of Globular particles,and thofe the moft plain,obvious, and neceflary-cor- 
junctions of fuchfigur’d particles that are poffible; fo that fuppofing fach 
and fuch plainand obvious caufes concurring the coagulating particles 
muft neceltatify compofe a body of fuch a’ determinate regular Figure; 
and no other 3 ‘and this with as much neceflity and‘obvioutnefs.as a fluid 
body encompaft with a Heterogeneous fluid’ muft be’ protruded’ into’a 
Spherule or Globe. And this Ihave ad oculum demonftated with acom- 
‘pany of bullets,and fome few other very fimple bodies; ‘fo that there was 
not any regular Figure,which I have hitherto met withall, of any of thofé | 
bodies that I have above’ named, that I could not withthe compofition of | 
bullets or globules, and one or two other bodies, imitate, ever alimiol 
by fhaking: them together. And thus for inftance’ may’ we find that the 
: Globular bullets will of themfelves,if put on an inclining plain.fo that they 
n together, naturally tun into a tréangnlar Order; compofin 
€ variety of figures that can be imagin'd to be made out of equilatera 
triangles 5 and fuch will you find,upon trial,all the furfaces of Alam tobe 
compos'd of : For three bullets'lying on a plain, as clofe toone another as 
they can compofe an equilatero-triangular form, as in'A inthe 7. Scheme. 
‘If a fourth be joyn’d to them on either fide as clofely asit can, they four 
compof- the moft regularRhombus confifting of two. equilateral triangles, 
é as 
