traGrdinary fine Gold colour, an - ' agreeable to the 
fight, being' Gampoied ot^exceedin^, . ... .:i Particles, and, the 
Cori jers- or, .Angles, very v'egulan' 
I placed thefe Saks before my Microfcope, that I might 
impart to orhers alfo the diverung fpedtp-cle, and all that 
faw it owr/tl rhey had never in their lives feen io fine 
Gold 5 and it feemci of fuch a Figure and Texture as if 
it h:id been a Piece of Gold newly taken out of the 
Mines. 
Now, in order to expofe to view (he Coagulated Salt 
Particles in their firft Coalition, I put the faid Water im- 
pregnated on a clean Glafs, and then caus'd part of it to run 
off the Glafs again, that the remainder might lye as thin 
as poffibly in the Glafs without touching it, imagining that 
the faid Water lying thus thin, the Salt Particles might Co- 
agulate the more regularly ^ and I obferved afterwards that 
moft of thofe Salt Particles were hexangular5tho fo exceeding 
fmall that they did almoft efcape the fight, and many of 
them w^ere regular Hexaogles. See Fig.' 5. A B C Fig. 6. D 
E F Fig. 7. G H I Fig 8. KL M and Fig. 9. N O P. 
Moft of thelef Figures were as tranfparent as Glafs, and 
all of them were furroundcd with a Liquid Matter that was 
fomething upon the Gold colour, the which Matter did not 
exhale, tho the weather was very warm and dry. 
Moreover, I faw an unfpeakable number of Particles fo ex- 
ceeding (mall that their Figure was not diftinguifhable, tho 
I did believe them to be Salt Particles likewife 5 the ra-rtier, 
becaufe I could not obferve any of thefe fmall Salts lying 
near the atorefaid great ones, which thro the fympa- 
thetical Inclination of homogeneous Bodies, I did con* 
elude to be ccmpos'd of a Congeries of fmall ones. 
I faw alfo other Particles that were not at all Pellucid, 
which I fuppofe were furrounded with fo many Gold Par- 
ticles, that they were not only of an irregular Figure, but 
alfoopake. 
Many of thefe Salt Figures were more protuberant in the 
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