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very tranfparent $ but others of them termi¬ 
nate more bluntlv,_ and have their Ends 
opake, whilft their middle Farts only are 
tranfparent, as at a , Plate VII. Sometimes 
thefe pointed Bodies are fo difpofed as feem- 
ingly to iffue from one central Point, and 
form fueh a Sort of Star-like or Spur-like 
Figure as b at the Top of the Drawing; or 
elfe a Figure fomewhat different, refembling 
b in ihe Middle thereof. 
But the moft remarkable of all the Figures 
it produces are owing to the lengthening 
out of certain of the Spicula, whilft they 
expand at the fame Time, and pufh out 
again other Spiculee from their Sides, which 
like wife expand themfelves into very pretty 
tranfparent Forms, not unlike the Leaves of 
fome Plants, tho’ bearing no Similitude to 
thofe of the Berberry ; an Inftance of this 
is (hewn at d. Others of the fame original 
Spicula fhoo.t not lb far towards the Middle 
pf the Drop, but divide and expand them^ 
felves laterally, fpreading o,ut into a broader 
Kind of Leaf-like Figures, mid. c c c. 
Among the detached Cryftals in ti e 
Drop there are many of a pentagonal Form, 
and fomewhat more opake than the reft, 
terminating at one End with an obtufe 
Angle. They are not marked with any 
Letter in the Drawing, but will ealily be 
diftinguifhed in looking over it.—I do not 
remember this Figure in any other Salt. 
The 
