236^ The Natural Hipory Mftrf? 



thing, and are moft exaftly like untQ^ 

 each other in all refpeQs: but tholS': 

 that are of diverfe kinds^dijfer from one 

 another, as well in Matter or Subftance|: 

 in Specifick Gravity, in Hardnefs^ iiif 

 Flexibility, and leveral other ways, aS 

 in Bignefs and Figure. That from thej 

 various Compofures and Combinationi 

 of thefe Corpufcles together, happen? 

 all the Varieties of the Bodies forniedl 

 out of them : all their Differences in 

 Colour and outward Appearance, ill' 

 Tafte, in Smell, in Hardnels, in fpeci- 

 fick Gravity, and all other Regards; 

 in much the fame manner as that vaf| 

 variety we fee of Words arifes from the 

 various Order and Compofition of the 

 twenty four Letters of the Alphabet. 

 But ot this Matter, and of the Procefs 

 and Method of Nature in the Formati^ 

 on of Bodies out of it, I fhall treat more 

 at large in the Difcourfe it felf: where- 

 in I fhali alio confider the Opinions of 

 Others^ particularly the Ancknts^ and, 

 amongft the reft, of Thdes and Vjth^- 

 gorasy about the Elements or Principles 

 of Natural Things: for I now hafteh 

 to propoie the other Alterations that 

 happen in the Terraqueous Globe. 



That 



