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Fontaine de Salut, are got thither without their 
Bundles. 
The Formation of thefe Stones deferves to be 
examined : If it was carefully ftudicd, it might, per- 
haps, give Light to the Formation of other figured 
Stories. It even feems, that, by beginning with this 
Figure, which is the moft Itmple that one can ima- 
gine, one may the rather hope for Succefs in the like 
Inquiry. 
This Paralleiopipede Figure with oblique Angies 
is common to many Stones in the Country of Bag- 
neres , and the neighbouring Mountains. Several 
Cryftallizations of the Grotto of Campari break into 
Fragments of this Figure : Thofe which hang down 
from the Top of the Vault of that Grotto, are, ori- 
ginally, fmall hoilow Pipes, formed by the Water 
which trickles down Drop by Drop ; and whole 
outer Surface, fixing themfelves by their fmall Bafes, 
forms, by degrees, a fort of blunted Pyramids, which, 
like fo many Rays from the Axis, which is nothing 
but the hollow Pipe, become folid at iaft. This Axis 
feems compofed of Plates, almoft cylindrical, laid 
one over another ; but, if broken, the Whole divides 
into Fragments of a Paralleiopipede Figure. The 
blunted Pyramids, that are about the Axis, divide 
themfelves at firft into other blunted Pyramids ; but, 
afterwards, almoft all thefe Fragments divide of them- 
felves into other Fragments of a Paralleiopipede Figure. 
The Stone of the Mountain of Barege , upon which 
the Asbefios grows, breaks alfo conftantly into Frag- 
ments of the fame Figure. 
~ I have likewife preferved a Bit of Rock half trans- 
parent, the Fragments of which are like the others. 
Having 
