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brace, any further then 1 (hall find them agreeable to future ex- 

 perience. 



1 24. That Salts are the principal Ingredients onflows, I think 

 has fofufficiently been noted already, that to endeavor any fur- 

 ther evidence of the thing, would be aflum agere in me, and lofs 

 of time to the Reader : And if of flows in general, much ra- 

 ther fure of formed ones, it being the undoubted prerogative of 

 the Saline Principle to give Bodies their figure, as well as folidity 

 and duration : No other principle that we yet know of naturally 

 (hooting into figures, . each peculiar to their own kind, but falts ; 

 thus Nitre always shoots into Pyramids, fait Marine into Cubes, 

 Alum into ofto, and Sal Armoniac into Hexaedrums , and other 

 mixt Jalts into as mixt figures. 



125. Of thefe fpontaneous inclinations of falts, each pecu- 

 liar to its kind, we have further evidence in the Cbymical Anato- 

 my of Animals, particularly in the volatile fait of Harts-horn, 

 which in the beginning of its afcent is always {een branched in 

 the head of the Cucurbit like the natural Horn. And we were 

 told the laft Term by our very Ingenious and Learned Sidleyan- 

 Profeffor * here in Oxon, That the fait of Vipers afcends in like 

 manner, and shoots into Jbapes fomwhatlike thofe Animals, pla- 

 ced orderly in the gfofl. Thus in congelations which are all 

 wrought by adventitious falts, we frequently find curious ramifi- 

 cations, as on Glafs-windows in winter, and the figur'd flakes 

 offhow ; of which Mr. HookJ obferved above an hundred feveral 

 forts, yet all of them branched as we paint fiars, with fix prin- 

 cipal Radii of equal length, shape, and make, iffuing from a cen- 

 ter where they are all joined in angles of 60 degrtes. 



126. What fait it (Tiould be that gives this figure, though it be 

 hard to determin, yet certainly it muft not be a much different 

 one from that which gives form to our Aflroites and Afleri*,wheie~ 

 of, though the latter have but five points, and therefore making 

 angles where they are joy ned at the center of 72 degrees ; yet the 

 Affroites both in tnezgp Rilievo and Intagli, as in Tab. 2. have ma- 

 ny more. Perhaps there may be fomthing of an Antimonial fait 

 that may determin Bodies to this $~larry figure, as no queftion it 

 do's in the Regulut, and the Caput mortuum of the Cinnabar of An- 

 timony. To luch a fait may alio be referr'd our BrontU or Om- 



Dr. Tbo- MiUington Fellow of All Souls Coll. p Mr. Hioit Micrograph Obferv- 14. Schem. 8. 



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