Salt Ammoniac . ill 
of Salt I have ever feen, by the Splitting 
of the Stem, longitudinally, from the Top 
almoft to the Edges of the Drop, but with¬ 
out any Shootings from the Inftde, as is re- 
prefented at 3.-Other Branches, befides 
the fmall Spicula mentioned above, protrude 
longer ones of the fame Form, from whence 
others alfo proceed: which others {hoot alfo 
fmaller ones from them, and fo on to many 
Gradations, as at 4. 
Before the Middle of the Drop begins 
to fhoot, feveral exceedingly minute Bodies 
may be difcerned at the Bottom of the 
Fluid, Thefe rife to the Top in a little 
while, and as foon as their Form can be 
diftinguifhed, whilft yet extremely fmall, 
they plainly wear the fame Shape exactly, 
which they afterwards appear in when grown 
much larger, as is {hewn at 5.-Their 
Growth is very quick, and pretty equal 
for a Time, but at length fome one Branch 
gets as it were the Maftery, and {hooting 
farther than the reft, forms the Figure 
6. The other Branches enlarge but little 
afterwards, all the Attradlion feeming biaffed 
to this alone, from which more Branches 
being protruded, and they again protrud¬ 
ing others, the whole appears like Fi¬ 
gure 8. , . 
’Tis not uncommon to fee in the Middle 
of the Drop fome different Configurations, 
where, infcead of the ftrait Stems defcribed 
above. 
