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large and beautiful. Figure 65 shows 

 one of their shells. There are many 

 shells quite similar to the Purples, some 

 of which you may be fortunate enough 

 to find. 



One is the great Frog-shell (Figure 

 Figure 68. ^g^^ Another is Belcher's Chorus (Fig- 

 ure 67); and then there are many little ones, like 

 Figures 68, 69, and 70. All of these have names 

 and descriptions, which you can hnd in the 

 books. 



If you now leave the rocks and go out on 

 the sands, you may pick up a great Heart- 

 shell (Figure 71). I used to find broken ^ig- 

 ones abundantly, which had been washed up by 

 the waves, out by the Cliff House, in San Fran- 

 cisco. 



There were also man}^ pieces of the Flat Razor- 

 shell (Figure 72). This is a thin shell with a 

 glossy brown covering looking like a coating of 

 varnish. They grow abundantly on the coast of 

 Oregon, and are the most highly esteemed 

 of all of our clams for a delicious chowder. 

 Captain Dixon wrote in 1789 as follows: 

 "At the mouth of Cook's River, lat. 59° 

 61', are man}^ species of shell-fish. For a 

 Fig. 70. repast, our men preferred a large species 



