very smooth, could not nevertheless hide a multitude of holes and scratches and ruggednesses from being discover’d by the Microscope to invest it, several of which inequalities (as A, B, C, seem’d holes made by some small specks of Rust; and D some adventitious body, that stuck very close to it) were casual.  All the rest that roughen the surface, were onely so many marks of the rudeness and bungling of Art.  So unaccurate is it, in all its productions, even in those which seem most neat, that if examin’d with an organ more acute then that by which they were made, the more we see of their shape, the less appearance will there be of their beauty:  whereas in the works of Nature, the deepest Discoveries shew us the greatest Excellencies.  An evident Argument, that he that was the Author of all these things, was no other then Omnipotent; being able to include as great a variety of parts and contrivances in the yet smallest Discernable Point, as in those vaster bodies (which comparatively are called also Points) such as the Earth, Sun, or Planets.  Nor need it seem strange that the Earth it self may be by Analogie call’d a Physical Point:  For as its body, though now so near us as to fill our eys and fancies with a sense of the vastness of it, may by a little Distance, and some convenient Diminishing Glasses, be made vanish into a scarce visible Speck, or Point (as I have often try’d on the Moon, and (when not too bright) on the Sun it self.) So, could a Mechanical contrivance succesfully answer our Theory, we might see the least spot as big as the Earth it self; and Discover, as Des Cartes[2] also conjectures, as great a variety of bodies in the Moon, or Planets, as in the Earth.

But leaving these Discoveries to future Industries, we shall proceed to add one Observation more of a point commonly so call’d, that is, the mark of a full stop, or period.  And for this purpose I observed many both printed ones and written; and among multitudes I found few of them more round or regular then this which I have delineated in the third figure of the second Scheme, but very many abundantly more disfigur’d; and for the most part if they seem’d equally round to the eye, I found those points that had been made by a Copper-plate, and Roll-press, to be as misshapen as those which had been made with Types, the most curious and smothly engraven strokes and points, looking but as so many furrows and holes, and their printed impressions, but like smutty daubings on a matt or uneven floor with a blunt extinguisht brand or stick’s end.  And as for points made with a pen they were much more ragged and deformed.  Nay, having view’d certain pieces of exceeding curious writing of the kind (one of which in the bredth