On the Electric Telegraph of Prof. Morse. 55 
soe te. T @) etre i the investigation, let us suppose the oe 
to be uniformly diffused before any disintegration of the groups: 
commences. The groups would be at nearly five times their 
—— distance, and each mass or group of salt would be sur- 
roun y one hundred times as much water as in the saturated 
Strong as that to which the saturated solution had been subjected. 
For the equilibrium, before existing between cohesion and affin- 
ity, will we disturbed by. that increase of the latter which results 
nerease of the liquid; and the suspended solids will 
each be sundered into numerous smaller solids. But the salt is 
y increase the distance of some particles of each group, and 
approximate them to the liquid, and thus give affinity a prepon- 
over cohesion. In this way succussion aids “separa 
But to carry ‘dicision by this means beyond a certain poin 
ts no permanent change; as the particles = instantly re- 
unite nee the preponderance of cohesion over affinity. 
op of this solution is shaken with ninety-nine drops of 
wae, a new subdivision of the molecules takes place, on the 
same principle. By repeating this process, the groups may be 
rendered inconceivably small, and this magnitude progressively 
and indefinitely diminished. I doubt whether those who have 
practised it have understood its immediate object, or the mode in 
Which it is attained. 
New York , July 23d, 1847. 
Ans. 1X.—On the # Sta Sha Nein of Prof. Morse ; ; by 
2. 
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