Mifcellaneous Observations on Salts, &c. 215 
to fay what others befides thefe the Bowels 
of the Earth may contain, or how infinitely 
they may be compounded and diverfified. 
I fhall make no Difficulty to fuppofe the 
component Particles of Spars, Cryftals, and 
precious Stones have been feparated and float¬ 
ing in fome Fluid, and brought together in 
the Shapes we fee them by certain Laws of 
Attraction, which in like Circumftances are 
conflant and unalterable. And as uniting 
in regular Order, and forming Maffes of 
Figures uniform and conflant , are the diftin- 
guifhing Properties of Salts, (as the forego¬ 
ing Experiments fhew) the component Par¬ 
ticles of Bodies thus formed muft originally 
have been Salts, notwithftanding the Bodies 
fo compofed are indiffolveable: nor is the 
prefent fixt Condition of fuch Particles, or 
the Hardnefs of fuch Bodies, any conclufive 
Objection 3 for the making of Glafs (hews, 
that Salts may be rendered fixt, hard, and 
indiffolveable. I therefore apprehend that 
all cryflaline Matter, or the Particles of 
Matter whereof Spar, Cryftals, and precious 
Stones are formed, is originally a Salt, ac¬ 
cording to my Meaning of the Word 3 and 
Linnczus is I prefume of fome fuchdike Opi¬ 
nion, fince in his Syftema Natures he places 
all precious Stones, even the Diamond itfelf, 
in his daffies of Salts. - 
DoCtor Woodward likewife, though he 
fpeaks not of this cryftaiine Matter as a Salt, 
P 4 imputes 
