'fefjas b maDsfeft m artificiaj'giaciadons|bot alfo it ever returns 
the above foid lex-angolar figuVe^ alrogether like that of thofe 
Cryilals. \Vhich iiSay alfo be the very c^ufe of the fex-aDgular 
figure in S?20W ythh being nothing elfe but water Concreted by 
its n^tutzlcoaguium^wMch is a oitroiis exhalation* And to make 
it';yet'more mapifeft^ that thefe are indeed' expiration^^^ of niter, 
I. digg'd up fome of the earth^and dre w'a Salt frboi^jt^'which had 
both the taft and figure of Niter ; though fome grains of it were 
of afqaare, others of a pyramidal, fi^^^^ 
Ic therefore bught not to be affirai^djthat a dewy vapour is 
bf it felf able to be form'd into a foiid gem^ bccauP^sif that were 
fo, fuch vapours- being eafily carried by any motion ©f tMe Air 
from thofe narrow placeSjand falling down in dew far fro\ii tte 
famejCryftals would be formed in thofe other places; but they 
are only form^d^there : .Whence we taay very probably ioferr^ 
that thente are raiftd the '^exhalktioiis vi^hich do c the 
deWj after fuch a manner as' the vapour' or exhalation of Lead 
coagulates Qaickfiiver. 
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A Rehtion ofmilnlmid'Sea^ntar Dar zick, ycildingai: a certain [ca-^ 
fori of the year a guen [ubjlante^^ - which catjfeth certain death '-^ to ge^ 
iher wiih an Obfervdfion] aBout ' vphiie 'Amber i 'CormniifAcatew bf 
/ii'r/Kirkbyj in a Letternritten ia-thePnbliJber from DanzfcM'- 
Decemb-!9;i67r^ 
Ear a fmall viHagCj Caliy'T^^^^^^^ya- German miler'diffant' 
■ from this Gitfy wefl-ward^ there \s an Iilland^sya ( bade' 
!by the meeting of three rivolets^fome fpririgs from thetidjoyh- 
iog hillocksjaad the defcending, rain and fnow^wa£er5)of aboot 
half aGerman mi|e long and an eight part of fuch a mile broad. 
It ftretches NNW and S cSW. About the midle of the bow on 
the Eaft-fide it difchargeth it feif with a pretty iiream^ a^ it alfo 
"doth in another place more Southerly. The foil of the ground 
"ronnd ahout- feems to be"la-nd ' mixfwit-h clay* Its \iiore gene*» 
rally fandy^as is its bottom alfo. Its depths \i4)ere deepeft^foiir 
faii3oms^ but for the mofl part but one , or one fathoiii and an 
hal^.- 'Tis ftored wkb: wholefbme and' delicate :Eiftr"^;as Peai^bj ., 
Roch. Eies /'6rc.' "and famed for a.fmsll fife, much - efteeai^d'^: 
