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that the pinna kept a guard to watch for hef.- 

 That there grew to the mouth of the pinna 

 2L fmall animal, having claws, and ferving as 

 a caterer, which was like a crab^ and was called 

 the pinncpby lax. Plin.lib.9.51. fays, the fmall- 

 eft of all the kinds is called the pinnoleres^ and 

 therefore liable to injury ; this has the prudence 

 to hide itfelf in the fhells of oyfters. Again lib. 

 9. ()(). he fays ° the pinna is of the genus of 

 fhell-fifh \\ it is produced in muddy waters^ 

 always ere6t, nor ever without a companion^ 

 which fome call the pinnoteres^ others the 

 pinnophylax. This fometimes is a fmall f(iuiU^ 

 fometimes a crab., that follows the pinna for 

 the fake of food. The pinna is blind, and 



^ This is taken out of Ariftotle, who feems to have 

 thought, that the pinna grew from that which really is its 

 beard, and which it throws out upon the adjoyning bodies 

 in order to fix itfelf. For he fays the pinna is produced 

 from the byfTus, which is generally fuppofed to mean the 

 beard of this ihell-filh, and to have been ufed for making 

 the finell of fluffs, frequently mentioned by antient writers 

 under the name of Byffme garments, and of which they ' 

 now in fome countries make ftockings as i am informed. 

 This notion of the pinna growing from the byffus or beard 

 is of the fame kind with that which prevailed formerly in 

 relation to the goofe tree, mentioned by many writers, of 

 whom a long lift may be feen in the tenth edition of the 

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