Fig. 33.
A very different order of figures are those of which [Fig. 32], 33, 34, and 35 are types. The originals were exceedingly small—so minute, indeed, that the specks containing all these beauties of detail were almost inappreciable to the naked eye. It will readily be perceived that they differ greatly from the order arising out of the primitive star or its secondary radii. The base of these must be referred to the hexagon, as shown at [Fig. 2.]The most highly elaborate of our illustrations, shown at [Fig. 33], exhibited a succession of planes raised one above another, the centre of each radial arm intersected by a slender crystalline shaft laden with delicate prisms. [Fig. 35] preserves more the form of the ordinary hexagon, and was cut very regularly into facets. Of [Fig. 34] and [35] we were unable to observe the exact disposition of the raised surfaces, and have delineated the outline only: these figures fell, with several others far more complicated, during the continuance of a very unusual degree of cold for these latitudes.
Fig. 34.