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usually compound bodies, made up of an ulterior 
series of comtituent molecules, i. e. molecules of 
the first substances obtained by chemical analy- 
sis ; and these in many cases are also compound 
bodies, made up of the elementary molecules, or 
final indivisible atoms,* of which the ultimate 
particles of matter are probably composed.! 
etude superficielle des cristaux n’y laissait voir que des singula- 
rites de la nature, une etude approfondie nous conduit cette 
consequence que le mdme Dieu dont la puissance et la sagesse 
ont soumis la course des astres a des lois qui ne se dementent 
jamais, en a aussi etabli auxquelles ont obei avec la mfeme fide- 
lite les molecules qui se sont reunies pour donner naissance aux 
corps caches dans les retraites du globe que nous habitons. 
Haiiy. Tableau comparati f des Resultats de la Cristallographie 
et de r Analyse Chimique. P. xvii. 
* “ We seem to be justified in concluding, that a limit is to be 
assigned to the divisibility of matter, and consequently that we 
must suppose the existence of certain ultimate particles, stamped, 
as Newton conjectured, in the beginning of time by the hands of 
the Almighty with permanent characters, and retaining the exact 
size and figure, no less than the other more subtle qualities and rela- 
tions which were given to them at the first moment of their creation. 
“ The particles of the several substances existing in nature may 
thus deserve to be regarded as the alphabet, composing the great 
volume which records the wisdom and goodness of the Creator.” 
Duubeny’s Atomic Theory, p. 107. 
t We may once for all illustrate the combinations of exact and. 
methodical arrangements under which the ordinary crystalline 
forms of minerals have been produced, by the phenomena of a 
single species ; viz. the well-known substance of Carbonate of 
Lime. 
We have more than five hundred varieties of secondary form® 
presented by the crystals of this abundant earthy mineral. 
each of these we trace a five-fold series of subordinate relation® 
