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be the half of thofe Bodies, and confequently that they 
were of an Hexangular Figure^ they appeared alfo as clear 
as Chryftal. 
I faw a few long Particles, feme of which were incli- 
ning to a Red, others to a Peach Colour. I further ob- 
ferved exceeding fmall Particles, that had the figure of 
I olifh’d pointed Diamonds 5 others were coagulated more 
irregularly. 
Hereupon 1 took a fecond Glafs Tube, and proceeded 
therewith as I had done with the former, and let it lie 
longer, and put a little Fire under the Pot that was filled 
with Sand, to the end that I might caufe the laid Dia- 
mond-like Particles to coagulate more largely. 
After that, I poured the (aid Aqua Fortis gently out of 
the Glafs Tube, fo as that the coagulated Particles might 
remain in it 5 and then l turned the Tube with the Ori- 
fice downwards, that all the moifture might drain out of it. 
Having done thus, I view’d the Tube through a Mi~ 
crofeope, and faw that there ftuck a great number of 
Chryftalline Particles on the infide of the Glafs, of which 
feveral were an hundred times bigger than thofe which I 
had obferved in the firft Glafs j then I feparated with a 
fmall Copper Wire the Particles that lay together, irt 
order to diftinguilh them the better, and faw with great 
amazement the abovemen tioned Chryftalline Particles, 
lying together like a heap of Diamonds , all of ’em as it 
were of a Hexangular Figure, and having each of them 
two fharp Hexangular Points j they were of feveral Mag- 
nitudes, and in one place we faw them fcatter’d, in ano- 
ther lying on a heap. In a word, it would have been 
impoffible to have difpofed any real Diamonds before the 
fight of our naked Eyes, after fuch a manner, as to ex- 
ceed this Phoenomenon. 
I could not then difeover among thefe wonderful coa- 
gulated Silver Particles, that had affumed a Chryftalline 
Nature, any Salt-Petre Particles : I Ihew’d them to feve* 
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