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fmall fquares as F. and this was the moft generall fi- 
gure of this Salt, for the bafes were moft of them fquare, 
running up into a Pyramid like common Salt^ 
I took fome pains to find ot what kind of parts 
C, Dy and E, were compounded, and it feemcd to 
me, that each of them confifted of parts like it felf, yet 
I once obferved that a fix fided figure like had joy ned 
it felf to one like^/ 
When the water had layn long in the Suda, and was 
become very ftrong, there appeared in it, a great many 
tranfparent figures, like the laireft Chryftall j thefehaa 
their fides perfed:, were as thick as broads and were 
fiiaped as 5, f, and 
SALT SOD A, 
Of 
BR IT A NT. 
Having ferved the Soda as I did the Englijh^ I 
fwimming in the water, an incredible number of fmall 
6 fided figures, as Numb, i y» i%. A being very thin,, 
and many of them fo little, that I could not have de- 
fcribed them, if fome of them, had not been bigger 
then the reft. In another place, I faw great 6 fided 
planes, made like Hexagonall Looking Glafles, and 
having s? fmall fix fided figare upon the furface, as 5. I 
faw aUo a few figures, formed like C. and fome fquares^ 
as/), part whereof were plain, and others had the fides 
rifing up Pyramidally into a point, as^". When. I fpeak 
cf thelaft Salts, that they run up into a point, it muft 
not be underftood that they/ ^re iharp at the top, but 
have the top or upper plain fh^ped like the jBafis, tbo' by 
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