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a&nefs and equality of the figures of their mofl mi* 
nute particles might be obferved and delineated. 
borne confided of long round fpiculae ; others ap- 
proached to a round figure made up of fmall globules ; 
but thefe were obferved to be opake, as the air was 
difpofed to thaw - 3 but when the air was frody, many 
flender hexangular figures appeared, fome of equal, 
others of unequal fides ; fuch as are exhibited by 
Scheuchzer in his Herbarium diluvianum y and by 
Swedenburg in his Prodromus principiorum 3 p. 2 1 y 
and fuch as I have feen in a pitcher, which was co- 
vered, in which the water was frozen ; and fuch fi- 
gures of the concretions of vitriol, lalts, See. as may be 
feen in the works of Leewenhoek, whom I find to be 
the mod: faithful and expert in delineating and de- 
fer ibing the minuted natural bodies ; and alfo fuch 
as are publiflied by Capellar in his Prodromus Cry - 
(lallographia. 
Several little dars feemed to me to confid of fix: 
oblong, round, hexangular lamella:, or indeed of fix 
rays terminating in points ; which little dars appeared 
to be formed of fix plane rhomboidal particles. Se- 
veral plane hexangular particles of equal fides, or 
oblong hexangulars, adhered to feveral of thefe dars,. 
either at their extremities, or at each fide of every 
ray. Some hexangular lamellae of equal fides were 
adorned all round with fix other lamella: of the fame 
figure and fize, or with hexangular oblong lamellae,, 
and to thefe fometimes there adhered feveral others 
more or lefs. Many of thefejiexangulars were orna- 
mented with fix rays, and to thefe were fixed the 
mod llender lamellae, which were alfo hexangular, 
of equal or unequal fides 5 but of equal angles of fixty 
5, degrees 5 
