88 
ee rine inthe V 
ger then a Two-pence, others fo bigg, that [ha 
a Sg 88 
MicrRoGRAPHIA, ~ 
tive bodies; and laft of all, of Animate, ones, that feeming to be the 
highett ftep of natural knowledge that the mind of manis capableof.. 
; 
— » OVE) od 
sg had 
Obferv. XIV. Of fevera] Rindes of frozen Figures, ~, 
Have very often ina Morning, when there has been.a great Aoarsrof, 
with an iralifferently Sines Microfcope, obferv'd alate. 
or Cryftalline beard, which then ufually covers the face of moft bodies 
that lie open to the cold air, and found them to be generally Hexangular 
prifmatical bodies, much like the long Cryftals of Sa/t-peter, fave onely 
that theends of them were differing: for whereas thofe of Nitre are for 
Rae att part pyramidal, being terminated .cither in a point or edges 
-thefe of Froft were hollow, and the cavity in fome feemd pretty deep, 
and thiscayity was the more plainly to be feen, becanfe ufually one or 
a pith fx parallelograns fides was wanting, or at leaft much hoster 
en ud Efi. 4) iaven-f Et! ; it Be 
But this was onely the Figure of the Bearded hoar-frof? ; and as for the 
pasticles,of other kinds of hear-frofts, they feem/d for the moft part irre- 
gular, or of no SEE ‘Nay, the parts of thofe curious branch 
gs, Or vortices, that ufually in cold weather tarnith. the furface of 
Glas, appear through the A&crofeope very rude and unfhapen,,asdo 
mott other kinds of frozen Figures, which to. the naked eye feem exceed- 
ing neat and curious, fuch asthe Figures of Swom, frozen Urine, Hail, 
feveral Figures frozen in common Water,@c, Some Obfervations of each 
of ance fhall RET SYD ANNEK, becaufe if well ens e and 
ami'nd, they may, perhaps, prove very inftru¢tive forthe finding out of 
what I have endea marred see | wean Obfervation to, eg tobe — 
(next the Globular Figure which is causd by congruity, as hope Lhave. 
made probable in the Sixth Obfervation) the moft fimple and plain opera- 
. 
Hon of Nature, of which, notwithftanding we are yet ignorant, 
( Late | I. ii | i 8% : i : ‘ond : 
Several Obferoables in the fix-branched Figures form'd onthe furs 
face of Urine by freeging, hd 
1 The Figures were all frozen almoft even wi 
that furface, and the parts of thole ftems which 
"2 Thave oblerv'd feyeral kinds of thefe Figures, 
ST aver Rt 
ett: all their branches pretty. like 
Were more extended towards one fide, asafually tho 
