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lar* Nor do I think it impofiiblc* 

 that, even when the fire does not 

 make any great attrition of the Cor- 

 pufcles of the body to be fixt, it may 

 yet occafion their (ticking together* 

 becaufe by long tumbling them up 

 and dpwn in various manners, it may 

 at length, after multitudes of revo- 

 lutions and differing occurfions, bring 

 thofe of their furfaces together , 

 which, by reafon of their breadth* 

 fmoothnefs, or congruity of figure* 

 are fit for mutual cohefions and 

 when once they come to ftick^ there 

 is no neceffity^ that the fame caufes* 

 that were able to make them pals by 

 one another, when their conta& was 

 but according to an inconfiderable 

 part of their furfaces, (hould have 

 the fame effed now, when their con- 

 tad: is full i though perhaps, if the 

 degrte of fire were much increafed, 

 a more vehement agitation would 

 furmount this cohefion, and diffipate 

 again thefe clufters of coalefcent cor- 

 pulcles. 

 Theft conje&ures will perhaps ap- 



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