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bignefss neither could h as before, fee one Salt parti- 
cle in fo great a isumber , that was bigger than the 
reft, tho the Water had ftood fome days upon the 
Afhes. 
Thereupon I pour'd out the Water and the Afhes to- 
gether from the Tube, and caused the Water to evapo- 
rate kifurely over the Fire-> and' laying the remaining 
Afhes upon a piece of Earthen Ware, I made it red hot, 
and aftejT it was cold, I crumbled it to pieces between a 
Paper, and then putting it into a new Glafs, and pouring 
a little Water upon it, I expefted to find that the Salt 
particles by the force of the Fire were diilblved, and 
would be united to the Water, whereupon | renew'd my 
Obfervations, pouring the Water leifurely, to the end 
that the multitude of Salt particles, in the evaporating of 
the Water, fhould not coagulate too faft, and fo hinder 
an exaCr view of them 5 and I (iiw fevcral times, to my 
great fatisfaaion, that the Salt particles (tho unfpeakably 
fciall) were Hexangular, as in Fig. 2. EFv but fome of 
em longer than others, and fome mu<:h larger 3 and fome 
^gain ^o flenderj that by reafon thereof I could not have 
feen them, had not the circumference of them been thick* 
er and brighter than the reft. 
Hereupon I took again a little Water of the Afhes of 
Tobacco, as clean as they came out of the Pipe, and mixt 
the fame with pure Rain waters and found the fame cffed 
in the Coagulation of the Salts as before. 
Altho among the aforementioned Figures of Salt I dif- 
cover d feveral others, I conduced that all thofe Salt 
particles that were not Hexangular were of another form, 
by reafon of the Coagulation, or Inclination of the Salts 
to one another, which happens more in feme places of 
the Wattcr than in others, whereby the Salts afllime a Fi- 
gure that is not proper to em. 
After that the Water had ftood fix hours upon th€ 
Tobacco Afties, which I had twice put into a glowing 
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