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guresliaving but^ihree/ides i.^bftt!] of tfiefe there Were biit 
'few. "Wharf tlie wat^r^^g ;Hjigk, there were pretty; fig- 
ureslike iq^uare fficfes';a^if X|iavi^^^^ in ^ 
Thefe laft figures took up "no^grekter fpace,y thea might 
have been covered with a: gre^t?^^^ tho'* there were 
Chifters of them, that were a K'unJred times lefs. ' I have 
often pleafed my felf, in viewing thele long fquare Crif- 
talline fticksof cS^/z^-P^Z-^r ; becaufe of their lying hud- 
led up togetheri as if^jthey had beeacayn'd out of the Sky^ 
Having diffdlved blew Fitriol Cyprus in fair rain wa- 
ter, and viewed it in a Microfcope,- I found fwimming 
upon the water, clear pellucid figures like Criftall; thefe 
had no thicknefs to be difcerned in them, becaufe they 
were levell with the furf ace of the water,* all their ends 
were floping, as Numb. y. Fig. u4. In two or three 
minutes of time, they grew a hundred times bigger then 
before ; though they continued to have the fame fliape : 
\ for they increafed both in length and bredth'; but in be- 
coming Bulky, they loft their pellucidnels, and turn d of 
a blew colour: other Salts were fliorter, and fhapt like5* 
lobferved fome oi thefe fo (mall, that by my Calcula- 
tion, they were above eight and twenty thoufand times 
thinner, then a hair of my head. As I (pread the water 
very thin, the figures therein were fo ftrange ; that it is 
not CO be conceived : It feemed to me that the Vitriol fe- 
parated from the water, and run into round particles ; 
