164 SWSf of Coral. 
furprifing Configurations moft exceedingly 
minute and delicate, bearing the Refem- 
blance of fome Species of the fmalleft 
and moil elegant Sea Modes. It is impof- 
fible to exprefs the Beauty of thefe Figures, 
which equal any of the fined; Mocha Stones : 
But an Attempt to give fome Idea of them, 
will be found d d d. 
After the above Appearances are corn- 
pleated, and the Procefs feems all over, 
there frequently prefents a new and unex¬ 
pected Radiation of fine Lines, at equal Dif- 
tances from each other, and arifing as it 
Were from a certain Point, in a very regular 
Order and Delineation, the Lines fhortening 
gradually on either Side, fo as to compofe 
all together a femicircular Figure, like that 
at e. I have found no regular Cryflals of 
this Salt, nor does it ufually give any Fi¬ 
gures at all towards the Middle of the 
ufe of, after Hand¬ 
ing in a Phial two or three Weeks, had 
a Cruft over the Surface* which taken 
out and examined by the Microfcope, ap¬ 
peared to be a Congeries of minute Branches, 
in Shape exceedingly like fome Kinds of 
Coral. 
The Solution I ms 
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