The branches also out of each stem of any one of these flakes, were exactly alike in the same flake; so that of whatever Figure one of the branches were, the other five were sure to be of the same, very exactly, that is, if the branchings of the one were small _Perallelipipeds_ or Plates, the branchings of the other five were of the same; and generally, the branchings were very conformable to the rules and method observ’d before, in the Figures on _Urine_, that is, the branchings from each side of the stems were parallel to the next stem on that side, and if the stems were plated, the branches also were the same; if the stems were very long, the branches also were so, &c. Observing some of these figur’d flakes with a _Microscope_, I found them not to appear so curious and exactly figur’d as one would have imagin’d, but like Artificial Figures, the bigger they were magnify’d, the more irregularities appear’d in them; but this irregularity seem’d ascribable to the thawing and breaking of the flake by the fall, and not at all to the defect of the _plastick_ virtue of Nature, whose curiosity in the formation of most of these kind of regular Figures, such as those of _Salt_, _Minerals_, &c. appears by the help of the _Microscope_, to be very many degrees smaller then the most acute eye is able to perceive without it. And though one of these six-branched Stars appear’d here below much of the shape described in the Third _Figure_ of the Eighth _Scheme_; yet I am very apt to think, that could we have a sight of one of them through a _Microscope_ as they are generated in the Clouds before their Figures are vitiated by external accidents, they would exhibit abundance of curiosity and neatness there also, though never so much magnify’d: For since I have observ’d the Figures of _Salts_ and _Minerals_ to be some of them so exceeding small, that I have scarcely been able to perceive them with the _Microscope_, and yet have they been regular, and since (as far as I have yet examin’d it) there seems to be but one and the same cause that produces both these effects, I think it not irrational to suppose that these pretty figur’d Stars of _Snow_, when at first generated might be also very regular and exact. III. _Several kinds of Figures in _Water_ frozen._