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fary to fix it into a Confiftency ; for, as I apprehend, 
there is no compound Body, but by means of the 
Chemift's Fire will yield fome Water j but as foon 
as all the Water is thrown off, the Body lofes its 
Hardnefs and Continuity, and turns to a Calx and 
Powder. 
Here, Sir, I beg Leave to propofe a few Queries 
to you. 
1 fl lottery, Whether Spar is not the univerfal Glu- 
ten of Stones, diftinguifhed from each other by the 
various Mixtures of earthy, mineral, or metallic 
Particles, but all united by the fparry Liquor? Of 
this I fhould be glad to have your Opinion ? for it 
feems to me, that there is fcarce any Sand, Nodule, 
Stone, or Ore, which either by the naked Eye, or 
Glafles, may not be difeerned to have a certain Por- 
tion of Spar, clear, or opaque, in its Compofition. 
2 d Query. Whether it is not reafonable to be- 
lieve, that Stones in all Ages have been, and are dill 
forming in the Earth, in fome fuch Manner as is 
here mentioned, whenever the necedary Materials 
and Caufe concur with proper Incidents? 
3 d Query. Whether this Hypothefis is not better 
adapted to account for tedaceous, and other extrane- 
ous Bodies, found inclofed fo often in Mades of 
Stone, than Dr. Woodward’s Suppofition, that all 
Stones were reduced into a duid Mafs by the W aters 
of the Deluge; which Waters being thofe of the 
Ocean, we cannot allow to have any fuch didolving 
Power 
