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summer, and had been pierced some weeks since, when it was fine, and had a 

 good taste ; this wine, when it had stood upon the table about an hour, had 

 many salt particles in it; but after it had stood ]6 hours, the salts were thick, 

 and had such a deep boat-like figure, as formerly mentioned in vinegar; as seen 

 N° 8, fig. A. There were also several salts, having brown longish figures in 

 the middle of them ; and some that had two, three, and four circumferences, 

 as fig. B. Some particles had a line or joint running through them. Others 

 were altogether diaphanous, as fig. C. Others had one end sharp, and the 

 other blunt, being not yet perfect. And some again were very diaphanous, 

 as may be seen under the letter D. Some figures appeared as E; and when on 

 looking on the places, where the wine lay thin, and was almost evaporated, I 

 saw a great number of particles, mostly with two sharp ends, and were a 

 thousand million of times smaller than a great sand. I saw also particles 

 of salt swimming about, which had the true shape of a wine vessel ; but 

 they were very thin and clear, without any line or joint going through them. 

 There were also several oblong particles, very thin and clear, and very small ; 

 though they be drawn large, as at fig. H. Because I was forced to use to F 

 and H a less microscope, than to the other six letters A, B, C, D, E, G. Also 

 when the wine lay thin, there were several branch-like figures, consisting of 

 irregular salts, the shape of many of which could not well be expressed. 



I examined Ceronce wine, and found the salts to be mostly, as N° Q, fig. A. 

 Some of which appeared as if rolled up, others were thin and pellucid; and 

 others, when the wine had stood long, were so thick, that they had a brown 

 circumference about them, as fig. B. Several were like the half of A and B, 

 as fig. C. 



I examined also Coteau wine, and found several particles, as A, B, C, N° Q. 

 And several whose sides were rolled up, as fig. D. Also flat figures, whose 

 longest sides were straight, and both the ends circular, as fig. E. Also salts 

 having a sharp point, as fig. F. And particles representing a flat-bottomed 

 boat, turned upside down, as fig. G. Others of the same make I could look 

 into, as into a cavity. There were also several very small and long particles, as 

 fig. H, which I imagine, if they had more stuff", would have been as E. There 

 were likewise some salts, like fig. I. 



I also observed Tonsain wine, which was very thick and sweet; I found the 

 salts to be the same, as those in Coteau wine, but in less numbers; only with 

 this difference, that in the Tonsain wine several figures had as it were stairs or 

 partitions in them, as fig. 9, letter K. 



I took high country wine, of the deepest sort, and found swimming in it 

 very few salt figures, though I let it stand 3 days and nights; but the salts were 



