Order 1, Salia. Sapid bodies foluble in waters 

 diftinguifhed from each other by their different 

 effedls on the organs of tafte. 



Under this order are arranged, to the great of- 

 fence of moll mineralogifts, all the Gems or pre-^ 

 cious ftones, notwithflanding their texture and in- 

 folubility, as alfo many other lapidofe chryftallized 

 bodies. To this our author tells us he was led, by 

 confidering that all regular polyedrous figures or 

 bodies in the mineral kingdom, are the refult of 

 chryftallization, which can only take place under re- 

 quifite and certain degrees of fluidity and therefore^ 

 whether they are faline or lapidofe chryflals, they 

 muft owe their figure to the fame uniform prin- 

 ciple operating on them in either cafe, while in 

 the fluid flate ^ hence, from the fimilarity of the 

 figure, with the chryilals of nitre, Mountain 

 Chryftal hath a place in the fame genus : the Topa^a 

 with the Borasc : the Diamond and Ruby with j^Ium. 

 LiNN/Eus hath given his reafons more at large in a 

 paper publiilied in the fir ft volume of the Am^^nit ate s 

 Academic te : and hath fince added " Chryftallos quo4 

 " fubjecerim falibus ne quemquam offendat mutet 

 " vocem falis in chryftalli, ii magis placeat, in 



verbis erimus faciles." 



Order II. Sulphura. Inflammable bodies; 

 flaming and odorous while burning ; foluble in oil ; 

 diftinguifhed from each other by their different 

 efFcd on the organs of fmelL 



Order III. Metalla. Metals ; fhining heavy 

 bodies, fufible in the fire, and foluble in appro- 

 priated acid menilrua : diflinguifhed from each 

 other by infpeclion. 



Genera 



