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fite cover'd with a tranfparent Matter^ 
which inclofeth another Marcafite, and 
the like other things, which 1 rcferve for 
thtpifermienitklL 
There are alfo Angled Bodies,that are 
refolved into plates 5 as Rhomboideal 
Selemtes^s, which are Rhomboideal Bo¬ 
dies, that are relblved into other like fi¬ 
gured bodies 5 and feveral other Bodies, 
which though they differ from Ghryftal 
in many things yet they all agree with 
one another in this, that they have been 
concreted in a Fluid and out of a Fluid: 
vvhich is likcwife true of that 
moft famous fubfiance,r4/t^ 5 
idBodf. fo that thole do not at all 
erre,who believe that the fo* 
lid Body of Talk is dilfolvable into a 
id body, feeing it is without controver- 
fyj that it was congeledsout of a Fluid, 
but that thofe doubtlefs (lioat quite be- 
fide the marhj that labour to extort this 
benefit from it by the force of Fire j 
F or, Talk, being accuftomed to, gentler 
and kinder ufage from Nature, difdains 
that cruelty,which the Votaries of Beaur 
ty exercife upon it, and out of revenge, 
yields to ^nlcm that part of its own Re- 
fplvcntj,: 
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