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CHAP. XXIV. 
Of Scarborough Salt. 
W HAT I am now about to treat 
of under the Name of Scarborough 
Salt, was bought at one of the principal 
Water Warehoufes in London , at a good 
Price; and was affirmed by the Seller to be 
a true and genuine Salt prepared from the 
Scarborough Well* 
Some of this being diffiolved in Water, a 
Drop of the Solution begins {hooting from, 
the Edges : firh of all, in Portions of quadri¬ 
lateral Figures, much like thofe of common 
Salt ; but their Angles inflead of 90 are of 
about 100 Degrees. Thefe Figures fhoot 
in great Numbers round the Borders of the 
Drop, having their Sides as nearly parallel 
to one another as the Figure of the Drop 
will allow: fome proceed but a little Way, 
others farther, before they renew the Shoot, 
*vid. a a , Plate V. In fome Places they 
appear more pointed and longer, as at b y and 
fometimes inftead of the diagonal, one of 
the Sides is feen towards the Edge, and the 
other {hooting into the Middle, as e . 
The inward Configurations feem to owe 
their Forms mofily to Vitriol, and are all 
produced by the fame Method of Shooting : 
though fome proceed from the Figures al- 
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