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till it was reduced to about five or fix ounces, when it 
became thick, and a pellicle began to form on the fur- 
face. I then fet it in a cool place, to allow the halts to 
concrete. After two days were elapfed, it was covered 
with a blueifh variegated faline cruft 5 immediately 
below which was a clay coloured faline matter, which 
refembled wet earth or hand, that had been raifed 
by fmall worms ; and this was interfperfed every 
where with fmall flattifh globules of the fame fort 
of matter ; below this was a purplifh jelly, inter- 
1 pel fed with a whitifh or afh coloured faline matter, 
formed into irregular longifh flat plates, which 
looked more like a compofition of lalt and earth 
than a pure fait. The appearance of this faline mat- 
ter made me fufpedt, that it was mixed with fome 
fort of oil, which the alkaline fait had extracted 
from the fkins of the apples, which I had forgot to 
peel oft before infufing them in water ; I therefore 
got a frefh parcel of codling apples, which I caufed 
to be carefully peeled, and then treated them in the 
fame manner as the former, and obtained the beau- 
tiful fait painted in fig. 7. which refembled a good 
deal the fait of the goofeberries j being compofed of a 
number of fmall roundifh very delicate tranfparent 
plates, ftanding on one edge, on a fine faline cruft, which 
adhered every where to the ftdes of the china bafon ; 
and were intefperfed with a grey coloured faline mat- 
ter. The cryftals of this fait were in general rather 
fmaller, rounder, and more of a fize, than thofe of the 
goofeberry; and I did not obferve any rifing from 
the lides ot others as in it; and they feemed to be 
dilpofed in a more regular uniform manner. 
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