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being given and repeated for above five days together. 
See one or two very remarquable Hiftories hereof in Boe- 
tius. (a) M De Lap. 
The Larger Hollow STALACTITES, or WATER- 2 &Gem ' Llb - 
PIPE. The Greek. Name fuppofeth it to grow fomewhat 
after the manner of Icicles , from Lapidifick-Waters. Yet 
how it ihould grow hollow, as this, is fomewhat hard to 
conceive. For hereby, it feems rather to grow or fprout 
upward , as the Stelechites. Only with this difference, 
That as that grows from an open Bed: this probably, from 
one under Water. Whence I take leave for the Englijh 
Name. Tis three inches long, in thicknefs equal to the 
little Finger. Of a Cylindrick. Figure, faving that at both 
ends ’tis a little more {lender; whether naturally, appears 
not. Compofed of feveral aih-colour’d and blackifh . 
Crufts, exceeding thin crifpe and brittle, not ill re- 
fembling a rouled Wafer. The Bore is lined through with 
a fmall granulated Candy. ’Tis inftantly diffolved with 
Spirit of Nitre. 
ANOTHER, confiding wholly of white Crufts or Wafers 
one within another. 
The SMALL WATER-PIPE. ’Tis a Clufter of very 
fmall Tubes , with the Borefo fmall, asfcarcely to be feen 
without a Glafs. Rough all over with a tuberous Cruft. 
They are found in Germany-, Moravia , and other Parts. 
One Drachm hereof in Powder, is a potent Sudor i- 
M n , (ijBoet.de 
A Stone like a Pebble with fmall TUBULAR KNOBS P 
upon it, like the Primordia of a Water-Pipe. They are 
fo fmall, that their hollows cannot be obferv’d without a 
Glafs. The Stone on which they grow, though very hard, 
yet makes a ftrong Effe'rvefcence with Spirit of Nitre. Thus 
far of Cylindrick.Stones. 
The CONICK STALACTITES, folid. ’Tis about three 
inches long 5 the top fharp, the middle s an inch over 5 
the bafe, an inch, with four or five excentrick Crufts. The 
whole compofed of feveral Crufts, one within another, as 
the Water-Pipe. Yet not hollow, as that, or rather not 
empty, but filled with a Red ftony fubftance. Being 
kroken, it fhines like the Lapis Judaicus. Without, frnooth, 
of an Aih-colour, with fome little caft of red. Inftantly 
diffolved 
