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dryM I»eaf, becaufe the long Parts that appeared In them 
in great Numbers, feein’d to be Canals or Vcffels ; but 
upon'a ftrift Examination into the fame, I judged tliein 
to be coagulated' Salt Particles, and the rather, becaufe 
they were fharp at both Ends. 
Now I muft confefs, it is unconceivable to me, how 
fuch Particles Ihou’d be found in the middle of the Cor- 
ral, efpecially if we allow that Subffance to receive its- 
Nourifhment and Increafe, after the fame manner as 
other Plants. 
.For my further Satisfa£Hon I took a little Piece of 
very fine Red fhining Corral, and put it into the Fire, 
and obferved that a little heat cauled the fine Rednefs 
to vanilh, and turn’d it into an Afh-colour. 
The Corral being in this condition, the Superficies of 
it ftill retains the fame Smoothnefs, bur under it the Par- 
' tides feenPd like Ribs extended lengthway^s in the Cor- 
ral ; and viewing the fame more narrowly, I obferved, 
that the faid Rib-like Particles compofed a Circle of 
round Scales, and that feveral Roundneffes were made 
by tliofe Rib-like Particles, till the middle Point of 
the Corral, in which there was no opening, became a 
long fingle Particle. 
Now having obferved, that the Corral, by being heat- 
ed, did not burff in Pieces, but was only fplit or rent in 
one place, I imagined, that the Matter which was dri- 
ven out of the Corral by the heat of the Fire, evapo- 
rated thro’ that rent that was made in the Corral ; or 
elfe that the Parrs of the Corral being open’d fey the 
Pleat, the Moifture that was in the Internal Parts 
might be drawn up towards the External. 
After this I took a little Piece of Corral, and put It in- 
to a Glafs, and put that into the Fire, encreafing the 
Degrees of Heat- lb faff till the Glafs was melted, but I 
preferved the Matter that was drawn off as well as I 
could, and viewing it thro’ a Microfeope, I difeover’d 
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