'Tartar VitriolatecL i$g 
Drop which moil other Kinds of Salts form 
before they fhoot. Thefe Spicule proceed 
and lengthen in different Directions, and 
crofs each other at various Angles, as a a 
and b b fhew, Plate VI. 
Some of thefe Spicula are very deeply 
ferrated, or look rather like the Ends of 
bearded Darts or Arrows placed over one 
another, as reprefented at c 
A Kind of Star-like Figure will be found 
here and there amongft the Spicula , appa¬ 
rently compounded of the above-defcribed 
bearded Points, and mold commonly, like 
them, more opake than the other Shootings ; 
a few of thefe appear alone, and others are 
formed at the Ends of the Spiculee , as at d 1 
Some likewife of the Spkula, after a while 
begin to fpread, and fhoot forwards, in an 
irregular Manner of branching, towards the 
Middle of the Drop, as at g g . Other Fi¬ 
gures arife at a Diftance from the Edge of 
the Drop, with Branches dividing and fub- 
dividing more regularly than the lafl: defcrib- 
ed ; (fee F.) : 
During the Procefs, Cluffers of hexago¬ 
nal Planes arife in the vacant Spaces, fome, 
regular, others with unequal Sides, fome 
perfectly tranfparent, others with a fmall 
Degree of Opacity, as at e. Thefe lafl: Fi¬ 
gures, which are indeed the proper Cryfla- 
lizations of the united Salts, will remain in¬ 
tire upon the Glafs, after all the other Con-* 
6 figurations 
