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Solutions of Saifs . 
Svei* you have only forty Sorts ; ’by diffe¬ 
rent Mixtures and Compositions of them 
with one another, you may produce many 
thoufands of Subjects for Examination, and 
he continually difeoVering new and won¬ 
derful Configurations: from this rich Store, 
by combining different Salts, and in diffe- 
rent Quantities, innumerable Varieties may 
be formed, as from the different Arrange- 
merits of the twenty-four Letters of the 
Alphabet, all the Sounds of Language mar; 
be fignihed. ' 
Here is an unbounded Field, which I 
only point out to the Curious, without de~ 
fcnbing the Beauties I have frequently met 
with in my Rambles there. ’Tis enough 
for me to fhew the Configurations and 
Cryftals of Salts limply and fitagly j I re¬ 
commend to thofe who have more Leifure^ 
to examine them all differently combined. 
Solutions thus prepared will be always 
ready to fhew the Configurations forming 
tinder the Gbferver’s Eye; a Sight no one 
can behold without Admiration and De¬ 
light. It would likewife be very defirable 
to preferve the Configurations themfelves, 
after they are compleat and perfect, or in 
their different Stages : but this in general 
cannot be done, for much the greater Part 
of them are broken and deEroyed by the 
Air boon after they are produced. A few 
however are durable, and may be kept a 
