. Encyclopaedia; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of . ach other in an angle of about 60, and 1! ootingbranches every way : each of which again protrudesother branches from one and fometinies from both, itsfides ; making together an appearance like four leavesof fern conjoined by their flalks (5, 5). Scpaiateclultcrs of the f^me ,lharp pointed figures^ ^^,l1\of(^ atthe edf^SbYfft^Hrop, arc alfo formed in the middleof it (6). Sometimes alfo


. Encyclopaedia; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of . ach other in an angle of about 60, and 1! ootingbranches every way : each of which again protrudesother branches from one and fometinies from both, itsfides ; making together an appearance like four leavesof fern conjoined by their flalks (5, 5). Scpaiateclultcrs of the f^me ,lharp pointed figures^ ^^,l1\of(^ atthe edf^SbYfft^Hrop, arc alfo formed in the middleof it (6). Sometimes alfo they put on another formlike the leaves of dandelion (7). Very beautiful fi-gures are likewife produced bv a kind of combinationof lliarp points and branches (8, 8). All thefe cry-flals are of a mod beautiful green colour, but deeperor lighter according to the time of their deepefl are conflantly produced firft, and thepaler ones afterwards. Towards the end of the pro-ceis fome circular figures are fbrnird, extremely thin,and fo flightly tinged, with green lines radiating froma cciiti*,»ofl colourlefs (9, 9). When all feeuis Crynalli; tion. (JL AN ?LJ/{ij]VitfrprSa/7/^t7/-£. Chkystals of Salts . rU\1c CLIL.


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