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fided flat figures; as is reprefented Fig, F. Which ftill 
retained the lame form> tho' the weather proved never 
fo moift» 
Of 
I obferved fome Camphir as it is brought from the 
Indies, and found at firft nothing remarkable; but as I 
more narrowly fearched into it, I'perceived the Cryftal* 
line figures as they were dotted together. Thefe figures', 
when they did not ly too clofe to one another, had fix 
perfcd fides ; tho* they were of difierent magnitudes, 
they were generally longifli; they had all their dimen* 
fions; and their thieknefs, was generally equall to theit 
bredth; but their length, was more then their bredth 
as Fig. B. Many of them, tho' they had fix fides^, were 
foiuething irregular ; fome were rfiapt like the flint of 
a firelock ; as Fig. D. tho' the moft of the figures that 1 
confidered, were irregular - yet I judged, if they had 
not Iain too clofe together, their form would have beea>. 
likcthofeof Fig. A- for when the parts of the tii^T^/^/^^'r^ 
at firft were fmall, and lay too clofe together, they 
might take from one another the means of increafing re>- 
gularly every way; but when the parts ar^ great, and- 
come to apply their fides, to one another ; they then 
make very g^eat and irregular Salts. ■ 
