220 ' Conjectures concerning ■. 
of fame; Metal or Mineral incorporated with 
and brought into Addon by a volatile pene¬ 
trating Acid, which carrying them along 
with it into the Fi flu res at lead:, if not into 
the folid Subftance of Inch Stones or Slates^ 
there determines them to fhobt into thefe 
elegant Branchings j after the fame Man ner, 
md frequently in the fame Figures, as the 
Far tides of Mercury , Copper , 6tc. are difr 
pofed and brought together by the Salts in 
■'Jlqua Forth, of which an Account is before 
given, page 196. 
Such as believe thefe Corals to be the 
Work of Infects, ground their Opinion, 
'(againfl: many feeming Appearances to the 
contrary,) on the foie Suppofltion that each 
of their ftarry Cells or Hollows is inhabited by 
ffi lnfeB , who therefore was the Maher of it. 
I very readily believe Infects are frequently 
found therein : for the Works of God are all 
fubfervient to one another, fo as to compofe 
a perfed Whole; and as on the Earth mod 
Kinds of Plants afford an Habitation for In* 
feds, it would be very ftrange if aniongft the 
innumerable Animals in the great Sea, fome 
Species or other were not intended to dwell 
in thefe little Cells. But without objecting 
to the Dfproportion between the Work and 
the Workmen, and that Animals fo exqui¬ 
sitely tender and delicate fhould yet be able 
to bring together and fafliion iuch large and 
heavy Mafles of Stone-like Matter, fmce Na~, 
