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feveral forts of parrot-fifli ; filver fifli ; old wives ; fome beau- ^'ht- 



July. 



tifully fpotted foles ; leather-jackets ; bonnetos ; and albi- ' . — -/ 



cores ; befides the eels mentioned at Palmerfton's Ifland ; 

 fome fliarks ; rays \ pipe-fiili ; a fort of pike ; and fome 

 curious devil-fifli. 



The many reefs and fhoals on the North fide of the ifland, 

 afford llieher for an endlefs variety of fhell-fifh ; amongft 

 which are many that are efteemed precious in Europe. Such 

 as the true hammer oyfter j of which, however, none could 

 be obtained entire ; a large indentated oyfter, and feveral 

 others; but none of the common fort; panamas ; cones; a 

 fort of gigantic cockle, found alfo in the Eafl: Indies; -pearl 

 fliell oyfters ; and many others ; feveral of which, 1 believe, 

 have been hitherto unknown to the moft diligent inquirers 

 after that branch of natural hiftory. There are, likewife, 

 feveral forts of fea eggs; and many very fine ftar-fifli ; be- 

 fides a confiderable variety of corals ; amongft v/hich are 

 two red forts ; the one moft elegantly branched, the other 

 tubulous. And there is no lefs variety amongft the crabs 

 and Cray fifli, v/hich are very numerous. To which may be 

 added, feveral forts of fponge ; the fea hare, hohthur'ut, and, 

 the like." 



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