It is so known a propriety, that it needs but little explication, but it is observable, which perhaps everyone has not considered, that those parts which appear the darker part of the wave, in one position to the light, in another appears the lighter, and the contrary; and by this means the undulations become transient, and in a continual change, according as the position of the parts in respect of the incident beams of light is varied. The reason of which odd _phænomena_, to one that has but diligently examin’d it even with his naked eye, will be obvious enough. But he that observes it with a _Microscope_, may more easily perceive what this _Proteus_ is, and how it comes to change its shape. He may very easily perceive, that it proceeds onely from the variety of the _Reflections_ of light, which is caus’d by the various _shape of the Particles_, or little protuberant parts of the thread that compose the surface; and that those parts of the waves that appear the brighter, throw towards the eye a multitude of small reflections of light, whereas the darker scarce afford any. The reason of which reflection, the _Microscope_ plainly discovers, as appears by the Figure. In which you may perceive, that the brighter parts of the surface consist of an abundance of large and strong reflections, denoted by a, a, a, a, a, &c. for the surfaces of those threads that run the _long way_, are by the Mechanical process of watering, _creas’d_ or _angled_ in another kind of posture then they were by the weaving: for by the weaving they are onely _bent round_ the warping threads; but by the watering, they are _bent with an angle, or elbow_, that is in stead of lying, or being bent _round_ the threads, as in the third Figure, a, a, a, a, a, are about b, b, b (b, b, b representing the ends, as ’twere, of the cross threads, they are bent about) they are creas’d on the top of those threads, with an _angle_, as in the fourth Figure, and that with all imaginable variety; so that, whereas before they reflected the light onely from one point of the round surface, as about c, c, c, they now when water’d, reflect the beams from more then half the whole surface, as de, de, de, and in other postures they return no reflections at all from those surfaces. Hence in one posture they compose the brighter parts of the waves, in another the darker. And these reflections are also varied, according as the particular parts are variously bent. The reason of which creasing we shall next examine; and here we must fetch our information from the Mechanism or manner of proceeding in this operation; which, as I have been inform’d, is no other then this.