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e stems of those branches grew bigger and knotty towards the middle, and the branches also as well as stems, from Cylinders grew into Plates, in a most admirable and curious order, so exceeding regular and delicate, as nothing could be more, as is visible in ab, ac, ad, ae, af, but towards the end of some of these stems, they began again to grow smaller and to recover their former branchings, as about k and n. 10 Many of the _lateral_ branches had _collateral_ branches (if I may so call them) as qm had many such as st, and most of those again _subcollateral_, as vw, and these again had others less, which one may call _laterosubcollateral_, and these again others, and they others, &c. in greater Figures. 11 The branchings of the main Stems joyn'd not together by any regular line, nor did one side of the one lie over the other side of the other, but the small _collateral_ and _subcollateral_ branches did lie at top of one another according to a certain order or method, which I always observ'd to be this. 12 That side of a _collateral_ or _subcollateral_, &c. branch, lay over the side of the _approximate_ (as the feathers in the wing of a Bird) whose branchings proceeded parallel to the last biggest stem from which it sprung, and not to the biggest stem of all, unless that were a second stem backwards. 13 This rule that held in the branchings of the _Sexangular Figure_ held also in the branchings of any other great or small stem, though it did not proceed from a center. 14 The exactness and curiosity of the figuration of these branches, was in every particular so transcendent, that I judge it almost impossible for humane art to imitate. 15 Tasting several cleer pieces of this _Ice_, I could not find any _Urinous_ taste in them, but those few I tasted, seem'd as _insipid_ as water. 16 A figuration somewhat like this, though indeed in some particulars much more curious, I have several times observ'd in _regulus martis stellatus_, but with this difference, that all the stems and branchings are bended in a most excellent and regular order, whereas in _Ice_ the stems and branchings are streight, but in all other particulars it agrees with this, and seems indeed nothing but one of these stars, or branched Figures frozen on _Urine_, distorted, or wreathed a little, with a certain proportion: _Lead_ also that has _Arsenick_ and some other things mixt with it, I have found to have its surface, when suffer'd to cool,
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