as to pack these objects, and thas free the em- 

 ployer from any trouble- 



The land shells and muscles which may be 

 fonnd over the whole of the vast territories of 

 Surinam and Cayenne are very desirable- I 

 would amply repay any one for what he mig-Lt 

 bring from the interior of those countries^ 



Of the shells from the Amazons, the great 

 island Joannes, and from the district cf Para, we 

 know little or nothing', except that there are in 

 the interior many fine helices (snail shells), mus- 

 cles, &C. Shells, therefore, however com- 

 mon in those places, would be objects of at- 

 tention here. 



From Pernambuco to Bahia and Rio de Ja- 

 neiro, the land and fresh water shells are quite 

 as iaterestiag, if not more so, than those which 

 are found on the coast; to the southward of 

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