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curious, but that poflibly, if I could ule fome further diligence, I might 
find it to: be'difcernable with a Adicrofcope, I with the fame fharp Pen; 
knife, cut off from the former {mooth furface an exceeding thin piece.of 
it, and placing it on a black object Plate, becaufe it was it felf a white 
body, and cafting the light on it with adeep plano-convex Glafs, Lcould 
exceeding plainly perceive it tobe all perforated and porous,much like 
aHoney-comb,but that the pores. of ic were not regular ; yet it was not 
unlike a, Honey-comb in thefe particulars. Een 79 
»» Firft, in that it hada very little folid fubftance, in comparifon of the 
empty cavity that was contain‘ between, as do¢s more manifeftly appear 
bytheFigure A and B of the X scheme, for the Interftitia, or walls 
{asI may fo call them) or partitions of thofe potées were neer as thin in 
proportion: to their pores, as thofe thin. films of Wax ina Honey-comb 
(which enclofeand conftitute the fexangular cells) are to theirs. 
Next, in that thefe pores, or cells; were not very deep, but confifted 
of a great many little Boxes, feparated out of one.continued.long pore; 
by certain Diaphragms, as is vilible by the Figure B, which reprefents al 
fight of thofe pores {plit the long-ways: a 
- Ino fooner difcern’d thefe ( which-were indeed the firft microfcopical 
Next, it feem’d nothing more difficult to un ap ineelligile aes 
rink in Water; and con- - 
ris per-_ 
It feems | 
inu- 
Nets, and ftopples for Viols, ot other clo Velie. | 
Andthirdly: if we enquire why Cork has fach a fpringinefs and fwel- 
ling nature whem compreis'd? and how it comes to fuffer fo greata _ 
‘etlion, or feeming penetration of dimenfions, fo as to be made a fi F 
ance asheavie again and more, bulk for bulk, asit was before compret- 
fem,and yet fuffer’d to’ return, is found to extend it felf = ogee 
= {pace? Our Microfcope will eafily a. us, that the who Kerr’ 
