The Natural Hiftory of JAMAICA, 
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This which is a very fmallone of the Kind, is about an Inch lon 
very much raifedin the Middle, or Convex on the outfide, and hollow 
within, not over a quarter of an inch broad. It hath many Ribs or 
Strie going trom the Cardo to the Circumference, is on the outfide grey, 
and within ofa deep blue as moft other Mufcles. It is of feveral Mag- 
nitudes. 
J found it on the Shores of ‘famaica. 
VI. Mafcus tenuis levis fubpurpureus. Lift, Hift, Conchyl. Tab. 356. No. 
195. & Tab. 359. No. 198. Mafculus Bahamenfis fere radiatus. Pet. Gaz. 
Nat. Tab. 71. No.xt. Radtated Providence Mafcle. Mufculus vulgaris ma- 
jor. Rumph. Thef. p. 10. Tab. 46. lit. B. 
Thefe Mufcles are about two Inches long, not one broad, of a Chef- 
nut colour, withone whitifh or pale colour’d Fa/cia or Belt going from 
the Czrdoto the oppofite Edge upon the moft eminent Part of the Shell. 
It is very thin, of a light bluifh purple colour within, where it hath a large 
deep Cavity. I have one Valve of this Kind which is of a deep blue Co- 
Jour inftead of a Cheffnut. | 
I brought thefe Shells from Jamaica, where I have found them rough 
onthe outGide by Membranes which perhaps belong’d to the Shell. I 
hada large one of this Sort which was given me by Capt. Dawpier ga- 
ther’d in his fecond Circumnavigation, and one from Scotland. “I have 
had italfo from Providence one of the Bahama \{lands. 
VII. Pholas minor, atro-rubens, tenuis, ftriatus. Tab. 241, Fig, 22, 23. Pho- 
las niger e magnis radicibus coralli albi Indie Occidentalis exemptus. Lifl. Hift. 
Tab.:427. No. 268. 
This was about an Inch anda half long, about half an Inch broad, 
was very deep and thin, of a Cheffaur colour without, and bluifh within, 
having the Face or Refemblance of the foregoing Mutcle ; one halt of it to- 
wards the Cardo was ftriated tranfverfly, the other towards the End 
fmooth, Ic had fomething of the Figure of a Solen. Iv is of feveral 
Magnitudes. = oie ee 
I found this lodg’d in Cavities of the <A/froites wndalatus and other 
large Corals in the Sea adjoining to Sfa%aéca, and in the Sub{tance’ of 
Sphondyli the thicker Shells, where they make them(elves Holes propor- 
tionable to their Bodies, as may be feen, Tad. 241. Fig. 22, 23. 
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