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curious perfons fee the (trange things in fudi t fihill 
body. 
In the faid Sand, which is defcrib'd by G H I K L, 3 ou 
may fee not only, as it were, a ruined Temple, but in 
the corner of it G H I appear two Images of humane 
(hape, kneeling, and extending their Arms to an Altar, 
that feems to ftand at a little diftancc from them ; this 
was ftill the more agreeable, becaufe it was as bright as 
any poHCht Stcth 
Fig. 3. M N O P reprefents (as near as the Limner could 
trace it J another hexangular fmall Sand, with two (harp 
points like Pyramids, and each fide that compos t the 
faid points were very fmooth and (hining : I have fceii ie- 
verai fuch Sands, that on each fide had a fmooth, fhining 
and oblique fuperficiei, inlbmucb, that upon one fingle 
grain I have counted 24 fuch p lilht fide.s or faci s. 
I have alfo obferved ftveral fri all Sands, that inftead 
of terminating their fix fides in a fharp pc^nt, ended fome- 
times in a Triangle, Quadrangle, and even in a Pent or 
Hexangular fhining fiamefs. 
Iremarktfeveral ihrte fidtd Sands, of whi^h fome were 
regular Triangles, which vtre very fhinmg and very thin, 
others were thicker. Sec 4. O R. S. 
Ifhewed the Painttr other hands that were compleat 
hexangles,the flat fides of which ppeared to us like a ^te.l 
Looking Glafs in a Frame, and miome of them were h rie 
boles, which feemed to fo r e to be likewife hexrnguiar^ 
whence I concluded, that fuch a hole was made from the 
preflure of another Sand of the like Figure. See Fig. 
T. V. W. 
When ITookt upon any of thefc Sands fidcways, each 
of the fix fides,which in the Figure appear as a Fraine or 
Bor<fer, feeniM to be a Polifht Looking-Glafs. 
Fig 6. X Y Z doesalfu reprefent an Hexangular Sand 
oppofed to the fighr a little fidewife, whereby the Re- 
flection is not io full and large as it the flat fide were 
placed 
