This Diftovery made oie imagine, that whereas one of 
thefe foremention'd Particles, whilft it had any moifture 
about it, was always increaiing, by a Confluence or Co- 
agulation of unfpeakably fmall Salt Particles, all of em Co 
firmly united to one another, that they feem*d to be fo many 
Cryftals ^ fo when that fame moifture was wholly exhal'd, 
the Coagulated Particles were prefently feparated from 
each other 5 yet the Diflblution was not fo efficacious as to 
deprive them of the figure which they had, but only of 
their ftrift Conjunftion : So that inftead of being one 
Tranfparent Body, they were turn d into feveral Bodies, 
that did not admit the Light, but appeared whire to our 
Eyes. And I imagin d likewife, that when the Water w^s 
exhal'd at laft, thofe very fmallSalt Particles, whofe figures, 
by reafon of their fmallnefs, had altogether efcap d my 
fight, were not Coagulated upon the great Salt Pnrticks, 
and fo vvere depriv'd of their Tranfpareacy ^ . whereas the 
Tranfparent Sale Particles that were more thinly Coagu- 
lated diApreferve their Tranfparency, but they were but 
verj few. 
After that the abovemention'd Water had ftood feveral 
days upon tie fonam'd wild Gryftal, which I had thrown 
into it glowing hot, I put a very fmall' part of it upon a 
clean Glafs, and plac'd the Water fo, that there came but 
very little Air to it, and theb Lcould perCeive but a very 
little Coagulation of the Salt Particles 5 but, placing the 
lame Water in the Air, I faw that there were a great many 
Salt Particles coagulated. In ftiort, there was fuch an 
inconceivable Number of exceeding fmall Salt Particles in 
a little quantity of Water that lay within the compafs of a 
Pea, that it is impoffible to make any man believe it. 
I took moreover, fome oahe Salt Particles that lay upon 
the Superficies of the Watce, after that it had ftcod about 
eight days, and obferv'd at the fame time, that t':ey were 
;iot only coagulated much larger together, with ry neat 
and fmooth fides and fuperficies, but alfo that ihey were 
grown 
