without leaves; being fo many in number, that they 
made the water whit;e and troubled : thefe are compofed 
of fmall Salts, and are difficult to be defcribed 5 where- 
fore I have reprefented but one fmall one. Numb. 13. 
Fig. JIBGD which takes up no more (pace, then 
that the bredth of it may.becoverd with a hair of ones 
head.; the particles, whereof the branchy figures con- 
fifted, were fix fided, and when they lay with the fides 
towards me, they leem'd to have a brownilli fhadow, 
which might be an eifed: of their bulk} -^efs, and folidity i 
but when they lay with the edges towards me , they 
fhewed like F. fome other figures had their upper part 
quadrilateralL* but others had the bafis Quadrilateral, 
and the fides running up like a pointed Diamond, like 
common Salt. Others were like /, iiQ L, and M; which 
lying apart and fepa rate from the reft, were more di- 
ftindly tobe feen. Other figures were irregular, and 
could not well be defcribed, becaufe they were thick (as 
is before faid) and caft a brown fliadow about them. aly. 
becaufe the fides of the Salt lay clofe, and joyned to one 
another. 3ly. becaufe they were exceeding fmall. 
After many Obfervations I am perfwaded, the rife of 
thefe figures, is a thin plate of <5 or 4 fides, which con- 
tinually increafes in Bulk, as long as itfwims in water 
that contains any Salt. 
Among the innumerable quantity of fmall Salts, 
which are in a little water, there are fome larger, and 
either tranf parent, or more obfcure, of which laft I 
flialldefcribe 2 asG and //, which appeared plainly to 
be compounded of other figures, for in one of the fides 
of G, I counted more then 30 figures, which number 
being cubed, comes to about 30000 : and yet the fide 
ofG feem'd not to be the 40th. part of the Diameter 
of a courle Sand. 
From hence may be learnt, the fmallnefs of fome 
Salts i asalfo ofthe particles that compound them, the 
Imart 
