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ole rhich are continued in che Lelendicu-) certtices) foreins chem alons rithit 1o che P’ex
lar Inicerrals ofihe scrata, are Clnel Ich 25 are pendicular Interrals; Where harins more room
and a srcer passase chan betore, ic deserrs chem
and leares them in thole Interrals; and chacthis
War aIl the Mineral and Mecallick Mecal nOW
tound in chose Places, was broushr chirher, and
chere dostill gro and increale.
Bucchacchese in che Scraca do HOL, NOr CanHOE
orou, but on the contraer, are continually les
rened and diminished, by so much as hach been
sucte as are distinsuimable by beins ol lome ob. conrered incorheir Perpendicular Incerrals, and
Tervabe Figure; 25 che sparry Stiriae Or Fceycles,
called Scalactosae, ex racher Stasonitae; he La
rire Salme lccycles, ox Sob Stalactirum; 
eriolum Mlocticum Nativum; che Vitriolum
Capillare; che aleren Scalactirum and Capillare;
Minera Ferhs Scolactios, wtuch woten several. Ot
the Crlnere Stiriae are Conrisuous, groins
rosertier, is ic vere, in one cheat, is called Bruss
Tron Ore; he Arrentum Arborascens and Caxillare.
Tochele alle alo che chrya  a
necals, viz. The Tim, and Mundick Crains, che
Tcon Rhombs. Cheystallis ed Nicre, Salt, AIom,
Vicriol, aud Sulphur: OE which Corr allo, arc
he Ciems ex Erones chacareheremur inco Cubes.
ineo Pyramidical Forms, er into Angulared Co-
hach been broushr forth on the Surtace of the
Fiarrh by Sprinos, Rivers, and Exhalations Crom
theAby(s, ever since theDeluse.
The Doctor suppoles also, har che Birumen.
Which is found in Cumps, or congulared Masses
in some Sprinss; and irhich in others, is found
Aoarins on the Surtace of the Water in chefiorm
OF an Oyt, (called by Nacuralists, Naphrha and
Petroleum:) Thac che Sale wherewiththe Salinae
Or Salr Springs abound, che Vicriol, Alom, Nitre
Sulphur, Sparr, and ocher Minerals, Wherewict
the Acidulae, or Medicinal Springs are impregna-
red; allehese Mincrals, he Paich, vere ArAlod5
ed inthe Scrata OF Stone, Coal, FartH, (9c. ane
hare since been ecuced thence, and conrered
lumns, consistirs oi six Sices, and mueronared (incothole Sprines, bythe Wacer perradins chose
or rerminatis in a Poinc; Deins cicher Opale Or
Scrata in ies pallase trom che AbYIs torvards the
Pellecid, or but partly E0, and coloured Black, Caid Sprinss. Sec a much larger Account ol
Wrhice, Crey. PEcd, Purple, Bluc, ZelloW, Or
Creen: v. er. Chrystal, che Pseudo- Adamantes.
theCornis and Bristom-Stones, Crystallized Sparrs,
che tris, che Amethy he Saphire, e 10paZ,
the Fmeraula, EC.
A5 10 che Criom ard Production Os Melato
aud Miverals, the Dr. Trom che Lishe his Obler-
varions have siven him, comes ro chele Conclu-
SiOnS.
chis Marrer under che word Fossils.
METAL, a word Frequenely used about a
Piece ot Ordnance, or Grear Cun: Phe Our-
side or Surtace ot her is called, the Superficies
of her Metals: When che Mouth oE à GreaF
Cun lies lorver than her Brecch, ther CaY, She
lies under Metal; buc il Me lies truly lerel, Poine
blanke, orrighe wirh cheMark, ther (a7, She lies
rirhe mith her Metal
METALLDROT, isthe Workins Or Opera
tion uxon Mecals, in order ro render chem most
che scraru oove cheir prelent etale alet tine, hard, briste, beauritul, cerriceable or ule-
Fus eo Mtankind.
MEFAPEDIOM che Came in chC FDOE, chat
Metacarpus is in the Fland.
METAPHIOR, a Frope in Phetorick, by
erhich wre put a Aranse and remore NVord FOF 2
Proper Word, by realon of its resemblance wirh
thethins of Wvhich e speak: A5 a Kins is cal-
led the fIcad oF his Ringdom, because he com-
mandsthe Members oF the Polirick BodY, as che
TIead coesthe Natural Body
METAPHIREADM, isthac part of theBack,
Wrhich comes atrer the Diaphrasme, Blanchard.
METAPTOSIS, is the degeneraring ot one
Disease inro another, a5 oF a Ouartan Ague, into
2 Fertian; and on che contrary, ot an Apo-
plexy into a Palsie, _C.
ME TASTASIS, is wohen 2 Dileale soestrom
one part ro anocher; which happen co Apople
Ctick Pcople, when che Marrer irhich aftectsthie
Brain is rranstated rothe Nerres.
METATARSDS, is composed oF sive lic-
ile Bones, connected ro chole of che Arst parr
ot che Foor, which immediarets succceds che
le
chere gathercd into a Rude Flcap, wirhour ans
Parricular Form or Order, lyins included wichir.
Ehervo opposice Walls o sices et ule lala lnter.
vals, vnch accorains ro cheir quatities, ihe
whols. Ex parels SiII.
In luch manner is sparr, and ocher Mineral.
utuass sound; as alo the, common Ores ot
1. LALE EHC FAF BTCATEIE PAHE OF our MeralS
and Minetals, viz. aI Cuch as ac le io IHI
dex ro che Oniversal Deluze, Whenche Strata Ot
Scone, alch, MCarble, C5C. Themietres ec a
s0 Forme. Ac which rime also vere all Metal-
lick and neral PFodules wharsoerer Formed:
as elllose in Rude Lumps, Tuch 25 the com-
mon egritae, Elines, Pebbles, Agates, Onyxes,
Faspers, Cornelions, Ecc. 25 those of a more ob-
serrable Figure and regular Shape, as the Sele-
nires, Belemnites, Stelechires, Mineral Coral.
2. That ihe Mecallick and Minerat Mattes
non Found in the Perpendicular Interrals Ox Fis
Tures oF the several Scrata, oF Whichche Body oF
che Parch is compoled, was all of ic orisinalls,
and ac the time of the Deluse, lodsed in the
Bodies ot chole Scrara, tharir aseduced thence
and cransnirted into chese Incerrals Since chat
time; che Interrals chemselres nor existino ril
he scrata vere formed, and afcerwards broten,
to lec che Wrarer irom or the Parth. See Pari 2
Consect. 3, 6. aud Part. 3. Sect. 2. of his Natural
Tristory of the Farth.
Ene he suppoles that rhe Warer which is con-
rinvally ascendins trom che AbyIS, cowards rhe
Surtace ot che Olobe, (sec Abyss, and etre word
Sprinss) continvallr perradins che Bodies OF che
Strata, deraches out of their Pores and Incercti-
cesque Fueh Mecaltick and Nineral C orpuscles 25
lic loole in ins way, (and wrhich are Withal (0) ale Called Mereors Fromcheir Fleration; becaule
Mitadus (acCoc 10 eaC Cartestant) alc
certain rarious Impressions made upon che Fle.
Lilems, CaMe elem in dinerene POrIMS, and
at ait 30. 10 be capabie ee patere hcoe prdle do let lite aebo  pares phes apsege 1o be tiet n pie