The Natural Hiffory of Jamaica. 51 
continuing broad to the end, which were round tips like thofe of Harts- 
horn, half an {nch long, flanding out from the margin of the broader part 
every way, which was moftly flat, though fometimes branched ; thefe points 
or tips, which are fomtimes crooked, growing larger, united, and having 
their Interftices between them filled up, make the broadeft part of this 
Coral, it appearing to be nothing elie than the tips join’d together, and 
having holes in thofe places where the {pace between themis larger, and not 
fo foon fill’d as the others, fomething refembling thofe round Cakes of 
Bread made by the fers at Eaffer. And of this, as to manner of growth, 
there is very great variety, the chicf mark of it being from its colour 
and folidity ; the moft remarkable varicties being in the under parts of it 
being broad or roundifh, the Interftices filled up or not, and its round 
Branches growing parted from one another every way, or being extended one 
Way. | 
{t is to be found on moft of the Shoals about the Ifland, and very 
plentifully on the Northern Coaft of Zifpaniola, where the Silver Ship was 
wreck d, much of this kind having been fifhed up with it. 
There are many varieties of this growing on Sea Shrubs, of various fhapes 
and figures, but all agreeing in being more ftony and folid than the other 
a although it be porous within, and rough on the outfide. Zab. 18. 
Mig. I. 
One fort of it I have growing all round. a common Glafé Bottle, this 
Bottle was by chance or Earthquake, thrown into the Sea in Port-Royal Har- 
bour, and thence taken up by a Diver, whom the Reverend Mr Scambler fent to 
the bottom of the Sea to take up Moncey and Goods he had loft in the great 
Earthquake. It is figured. Zab.19. ‘This fhews the Seed of Coral to be liquid. 
I think the kind of Foffl Coral found in Oxfordfbire, and mentioned by 
Mr. Luid. Lithophilac Brit. p.6. No.92. & 93- {eems to be this. It is there 
figured, No. 92. Zab. 3. ! rE 
This is pretty well figured by Gefzer, and 7. B. 
: If. Corallium Album pumilum noftras. Cat. noft.p.t. Raii hift. p. 62. Tab.18. Tab. 18s 
"12. 2. Fig. 2, 
I could not find any great difference between the Coral found on the ; 
Weft Coaft of England, and this in Famaica, and very little between it and 
one I had given me by Mr.George Handifyd, who brought it from the Streights 
of Magellan, with many other Natural Curiofities : this laft was a little higher, 
more branched, le{S crooked, and flenderer; That I gathered in Famaica, was 
not over an Inch high with many very crooked Branches, {mooth and folid: 
it grew on Rocks, Shells, &c. in the bottom of the Sea, as alfo in roundith 
lumps or mafles, whence it is fometimes caft on Shore. It is ufed in the 
London Shops for White Coral ; and Gerard defcribes this Englifh one, giving’ 
the figure of the White Coral, taken from Lobelius’s Icones. 
This fort which grows in Famaica, is found about Falmouth in England, 
hot growing (as I have heard) but thrown thither by the Storms, broken 
to pieces. 
