almofi: gone/uch a multitude of particles appear,and run 
together, that they caufe a confufion. After this I confer- 
red with an Apothecary, about the making of the Salt of 
Carduus BenediBus j and he aflfured me, that almoft all the 
fliops make it of a mixture of the Stalks of divers herbs 
burnt ;but he had a little that was true made, andfrefhi 
lome whereof I took, and found it to confift of irregular 
fmall and roundi(hparticle3:& every particle confifted a- 
gain, of others that were roundifn and lefs. Upon a 
further examination, I perceived very plainly, a number 
of figures tapering towards both ends, as is above raenr 
tioaed, in f>^. /. After about a days time, I faw feveral 
flat figures,- as F and H. But having diflblved the Salt 
in rain water, and viewed it as it lay thin upon my Plate, 
I found all the above mentioned figures j butthofeof 
Z, and M exceeded in number all the reft; In 
fomuch, that I conceived I (aw more in a quantity of 
water equall to the weight of a Grain, then there aire 
Stars to be feen in the Heaven by the naked Ey. All 
thefe figures as they were tranfparent, and very regular, 
as long as they had any water about them ; fo they were 
irregular, by the going together of other particles,as foon 
as the water was evaporated. 
Sj^LT of WORMWOOD. 
l obferved theSalt offF(?r;w2pW, fuch as is fold by the 
Apothecary's,- but 1 found nothing remarkable : I then 
diffolved it in water, and therein prefently difcovered, 
a great quantity of figures, (harp at both ends; as numb. 
ti. Fig. A. Again there were leifer figures, as 5. but they 
lay an innumerable company of them together; fome 
few had fix fides, asfi a few were flat and fquare, as 2>. 
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