ABSTRACT
ALL bodies we are acquainted with, it is universally agreed, are compounds, as it were, of solid matter and empty space. All bodies, viz. the ultimateparticles of solid matter which enter into their composition, are separated by intervals of space, in which no matter at all, at any rate none that we have any acquaintance with, is contained. Tothe different distances at which, in different states of its existence, the component particles of the same body are placed, are owing, in some degree, the different textures of which it issusceptible, and which, under different circumstances, it exhibits to our senses.
