a minute, whereas I faw nothing before but a fluid clear 
Watery and after the fpace of another minute, the faid 
Particles were increased to the number of thirty, fome of 
which were flor^ting up and down in the little moifture, 
and were grown thicker and broader, efpecially fuch as 
lay at- fome diltance from the reftj and fome were fo 
thick and broad, that they far exceeded the others in 
largenefs ^ and when the Water was almoft all exhard, 
I faw a great number of very fmall Particles, in which I 
could difcover no figure, and then my agreeable profpeft 
was at an end, becaufe al! the Salt particles were fur- 
rounded with a Watery Humour which did not evaporate, 
thecaufe of which was, the Rainy Weather, with a Fog- 
gy Air and a South Wind. 
I have endeavoured to fee this agreeable fight more 
than once, but could not obtain a diftinft view of the 
Salts. 
1 did not fucceed in my laft Obfervation till after the 
Water had ftood 5 days upon the Tobacco- Afties. 
Moreover, I took the Glafs in which the Tobacco- 
Afhes were, that 1 had reduced to a Petrify 'd Subftance, 
and held it over the flame of a Candle till the Water 
boyl'd, for the fpace of two minutes, and the faid Sub- 
ftance was feveral times lifted up in the Water, expefting 
that by tlie faid Heat the Salt particles (hould be diflolv'd, 
and incorporated with the Water, which, as I faid be- 
fore, lay coagulated like Cubes in the Water, to the end 
that ! might make fome new Obfervations ^ but I could 
not bring it to bear, forafmucb as almoft all the Salts lay 
in the Water coagulated and linkt by hundreds toge- 
ther, fubfiding in the bottom, or elfe flicking to the 
Glafi. ^ 
AH tbefe Coagulated Salts were fo fmall, that let me 
ufe what Microfcope I wou'd^ I could not fully difcover 
their figure, which however I took to be Hexangular, 
and t bemore becaufe I took them all to be of the fame 
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