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appears by the help of the Adicrocope, to be very many degrees fmaller 
2 sage ipuie eye is able perceive without it. “et though one 
of thefe fix-branched Stars appear’d here below much of the fhape de- 
fcribed in the Third Figure of the Eighth scheme 5 yet 1am.very apt to 
think:that could we have a fight of one of them througha A&crofcope as. 
they are generated in the Clouds before their Figures are vitiated by 
external accidents,they would exhibit abundance of curiofity and neat- 
nef& there alfo, though never fo much magnify'd: For fince [ have ob- 
ferv'd the Figures of Salts and Asinerals to be fome of them fo exceeding 
fmall, that I have fcarcely been able to perceive them with the A&icrofcope, 
and yet have they been regular, and fince (as far as Ihave yet examind 
it) there feems to be but one and the fame caufe that produces both thefe 
effects, I think it not irrational to fippofe that thefe pretty figur'd Stars 
_, of Snow, whenat firft generated might be alfo very regular and exact. 
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Several kinds of F igures in Water frozen. is ry 
~uiPutting fair Water into a large capacious Veflel of Gla, and expofing * 
cieaetas obferv'd after a lindextiaty feveral seats flat, and thin 
lamina, or plates of Ice, crofling the -bulk of the water and one another _ 
very itregularly, onely moft of them feem‘d to turn one of their edgesto- 
wards that fide of the Glafs which was next it, and feem’d ‘to grow, 4 
‘twere from the infide of the Veflel inwards towards the middle, almolt 
like fomany blades of Ferv. Having taken feveral of thefe ‘plates out of 
porresian the blade of a Knife, I obferv'd them figur’d much after the — 
ftem in the middle like the back-bone, udobeobie on either fide, were 
a multitude of fmall ftirie, or icicles, like the fmaller bones,or the {mallet 
branches in Fer, each of thefe branches on the one fide, were parallel to | 
all the teft on the fame fide, and ‘all of them feem'd to make an ar 
with the ftem,towards the top, of fixty degrees, and towards thet 
tom or root of this ftem, of 120. See the fourth Figure of the. Plate, 
“1 obferv'd likewife feveral very pretty varieties of Figures in Wate 
frozeron the top of a broad flat Marble-ftone, expos'd tothe cold with 
a little ‘Water ont, fome like feathers, fome-of other fhapes, tian} of 
them were very-much of the thape expreft in the fifth Fivere of the 
8. Scheme, whichis extremely differing from any of the other Figures. 
I obferv'd likewife, that the fhootings of Ize on the topof Water, be 
ginning to freez, were in ftreight sfoatical bodies muely ike thofe of 
rochipeter, that they'croft each other ufually without any ‘kind of order 
Or rule that dhey were alwaysa litle higher then the furface ofthe We 
e€ i t | Sar ? Bits ae the : 
_ Aaakes of 1c hat deen ffozen on the tp of Water to any Co 
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