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» Secondly, that it be net too long expofed, fo as that the whole bulk 
be frozen.for oftentimes,in fuch cafes,by reafon of the {welling the. of, Ice, 
-or from fome other caufe, the curious branched Figures difappear. \,.:. . 
6: Thirdly, an artificial freezing with Svow and Salt; apply tojthe outs 
fide of the containing Veflel, fucceeds not well, unlefs there be avery 
dittle quantity. in the Vedlel. | i botsisnse Steareds 
Fourthly, If you take any cleer and {mooth Glafs,and wetting all the 
infide of it with Urine, you expofe it toa very fharp freezing, you will 
find it cover'd with a very regular and curious Figure...) 4,1; |, , 
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Obfervables in figur'd Snow ion v0) ts 
Expofing a piece of black Cloth, or a black Hatt to the falling saow, Sehm-®- 
I have often with great pleafure, obferv'd fuch an infinite variety of cu- * 
_-Moufly figur’d szom, that it would be as impoffible to draw the Figure 
» and thape of every one of them, as; to \imitaté éxactly the curious and 
Geometrical Afechanifme of Natureih arly one. Some coorfe draughts, 
_ fuch as the coldnefs of the weather, and. the ill provifions, I had. byyme 
for fuch a purpofe, would permit me to make, I have here added in the 
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Inall which I obferv d, that if they were.of any, regular Figures; they 
were always branched out:with fix principal branches, all of equal Jength 
thape and make, from the center, being each of them inclin’d to either 
the next branches on. either fide of it, by.an angle of fixty degrees. 
_ Now, asall.thefe ftems were for the moft part in.one, flake exactly, of 
the fame! make; {fo were they in differing Figures of very differing oness 
_ fothatinja very little time I have obferv d above an hundred feyeral cizes 
x and tha of thefe {tarry flakes. sisiats yO .sviliset lo sbyutblums 
©) The branches alfo out of each ftem of any, one of thefe flakes, were ex: 
_ attly alike.in the fame flakes, fo that.,of whatever-Figure one of th 
branches were,, the other five were fure to, be of the fame, very.exattly, 
thats, if the branchings of the one were {mall, Perallelipipeds or, Plates, 
‘the branchings of the other five were, of the ameaianaligensrally, the 
ranchings were very conformable to: the fules and metho oblervidbes 
3 mes inthe Figures on Urine, that iss the branchingsfrom each fide| of * 
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_s ftems were parallel to. the next {tem,on that: fide,,and if the ftems 
Were plated, ‘the branches alfo were. the fame. if the, tems were very 
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fot ‘appear fo curious and exactly figur’d.as one, would have imagind, 
but like Artificial Figures, the bigger, they weremeg sd, the sapFe Ms 
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tegularites appear'd in, thems, but this irregularity, teem d afe to 
itt thawing and breaking of the flake by she fall, and not at all to. the 
of of the plaftick virtue of Nature, whofe one in the formation 
‘ mol of ehcfekind lof egnlar Figures,fichis tho pera 
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