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juft like Oyl when it is mixt with water; As the foremea- 
tioned figures paft flowly, thro' a great deal of water^ 
they increaft gradually 5 as for example, a four fided 
figure was rais'd higher,by the gathering together of the 
Vitriol, which made a Border about it ^ and this not 
only once, but i f or id times. In fine, it feem'd like a 
frame, whofe mouldings were high raifed, the ground 
or Bafis, and the fhapeof the Circumference continuing 
Itill the fame, as when the figure was little. Thefe par- 
ticles, and alfo the very fmall ones, I judge had a hollow- 
nefs in them, and irere not made in the body of the 
^ater, but upon the fide of tte Glais, to which their bafis 
ftuck very f aft. 
SALT or OTL of TARTAR 
I mix't the lic^uor of T^ri^^^r with water, and Jet it 
ftand for fome rime, that the grofler foul parts might 
firtk dbwn.In this niixture I obferved^ that there' were 
long flender particles,which thro' a common Microfcope; 
were like the (havings of a Mans Beard s as Numb. 
Fig. A, Thefe drove againft rheluperficies of the watery 
and fomeof them grew ui length, bred tli, and thrcknefs 
zs Fig. 5. Aliofome as Fig, C. having many times two 
flopeends j but fome had but oneflope end j and the o- 
therend was lharp, as Fig, D\ Thefe Salts in fome places- 
grew fo big, that through a Microlcope, they feem'd as 
long as ones finger ; But- then they were odly made up 5 
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