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clofet : the next morning I examined it, and with great pleafure I faw 

 in it all the fame kinds of faline particles as I have pictured at F G 

 H I, thefe I could difcern moft diftinftly, and in gi-eat numbers, 

 yet much fewer than thofe I had before feen in the long Pepper, 

 though the quantities of white and long Pepper, and of water, in 

 which I had infufed them both, were nearly equal. 



I alfo drew off the oil and fpirit from white Pepper, but I could 

 fee nothing in the oil except a few particles, which I thought to be 

 falts, in the thinner oil or fpirit I faw fome faline particles, the 

 fame as reprefented at jig. 0, I. Thefe were fo fmall, and lb hid 

 by the oil, that they could not be dillinguilhed without great at- 

 tention. 



Farther, I poured fair rain water on the caput mortuum, or folid 

 fubllance left of this Pepper, and after it had flood for fome hours, 

 I poured it off; and when the greater part was evaporated, I faw 

 fome faline particles lying in it which had fix fides like an equila- 

 teral triangle, with the three angles or points a little cut off, as 

 fhewn at fig. 8, L. Others had fix equal fides : there were alfo 

 fome exceeding thin quadrangular figures, as at jig. g, M, and 

 fome parallelograms, as at fig. lo, N, which were wonderfully 

 thin. Alfo many fmall particles like thofe pictured at fig. 6, I^ 

 fome of which were blunt at one end, and fliarp pointed at the 

 other. I faw alfo various particles, at the extremities of which I 

 could not difcover any point. All thefe faline particles were fur- 

 rounded with an exceeding thin tranfparent liquor, which upon the 

 leall heat being applied, was changed into irregular faline particles, 

 which caufed all the before mentioned particles to alter their exa6t 

 Ihape. But with the fame eafe as this liquor was converted into 

 falls, it was again refolved into a fluid only by breathing upon it 

 twice. 



A gentleman of my acquaintance received from the Eaft Indies, 

 among other prefents, a fmall jar filled with the falts extraded from 

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