of the blood, wooid cover them; thefe lafl: were as 
tranfparent as the fineft glafs,^ as thin as can be imagin- 
ed i for if a piece of ^fw/^?^ paper, as large as the naii 
of ones thumb, were cut with fix fides, the thicknefs 
thereof, to the bredth, would be more then it was in 
thefe figures ; Nay when f or <5 of thefe particles lay dif- 
orderly upon one another, their thicknefs was incon- 
fiderable. Alio fome few figures were fliaped like D and 
Ei fome few like aUothere fwam in the water, many 
flat thin particles, like a film or thin Skin ; thefe fbeing 
viewed with my beft GlafTes)! judged to be made op of a 
number of very fmall falts like unto Sands,- But the 
Pot Jjhes, and other Salts, do in moift weather turn into 
a watery fubftance, yet the firft fort above mentioned^ 
and that having fix fides, retained ftill their figures, tha 
the place they lay in were wet; which wetnefs I believe 
proceeded partly, f ram the d ifTolution of fome common 
Salt, (for I amperiwa ved, that not only in Lime Stone ^ 
but alio in J'ot Jffoes, Fitriol, Salt-Peter ^ and almoft all 
things, common Salt is to be found) and fecondly from 
the moiflure in the Jir adhering to the Salts, as it ufually 
does to clojfe, and folid bodies. 
S^LT in, LICME 
F'ISH S HELj LS^ 
Ot this Lime ("which is made of iS^»^ »S'/;^//j' burnt) I 
mixta good quantity with, water, and lettmg it ftand 
till it was fecled, I took up a drop, which feemed tobe 
as clear as Chryttall ^ but I had no fooner obferved it, 
then I perceived figures refembling thin boughs of a tre^^ 
without-: 
