it is dtherwife with conamoa 6*^/^5 for, if a fmall 
quantity of that be put in water, it will prefently dif- 
folve, and every Corn be divided into Millions of parts, 
being all of them four fquarei and if a great deal of 
Salt, bedifTolved in water, and fome ot the watei be eva- 
porated, the iSiSj/^ runs into great Corns. Now that it 
' is true,that a grain of commonty^/^^is divided i ito fquare 
particles, a Thoufand Millions of times lefs dien a land, 
and that each of thele particles, is again divided into an 
incomprehenlible number of other purticlbs, beiore they 
will pafs from the Bowells into the blood, and other 
parts of the Body, the alTertion will not leem ftrange, if 
we confider, that in Infeds found jn common water, and 
our Excrements, which are not the bignefs of isoqsooooq of a 
great fand^ there is a Coat,or Skin , and perhaps Scales 
on it,- that there are Feet, or Fins, wheirewith it fwims j 
a Mouth, Bowells, Veins, Mufcles, Sinews, and all 
the inwards, as compleatly, as in the greatefl: Aninial : 
and if the body of fo fmall a Greature, may be imagined 
lb divifible, much more may a particle of &/^. 
When the bloodh^sbeen fome times out of the Veins, 
the fmall Salts then begin to go tbgether, ; and appear, 
as I have often leen, and particularly, while I was late- 
ly bufied about the Cryttallin humour of the Eye of a 
Man, I obferved a number of fmall iS"^//^ particles, have- 
ing the figures of common Salt ^ and I am perfwaded, 
there is not a drop of blood in the body, which has not 
itsfhareof them. 
Having thus declared my opinion, upon the parts of 
&/^ , lihalldo the fame, upon thofe of water. For as 
much as that a late Author, hath fpoken of them, with 
fuch afFurance, that ordinary Men coming to read him, 
imagine , the Snakes of which the water is 
made, to be very big : but if I fliould tell them, that 
thole water Snakes are fo little, that if a great fandwere 
divided intto a Thouiand Miittoa of parts,.. the 
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