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The creature that forms and inhabits this (hell 



of the ocean, and 



frequently many hundred leagues from any land ; but having met with many of the 



kind between Bermudas and the wefler 



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(land 



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in my voyage from T 



it 



bles me to communicate the following account of them 



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creature 



probably paifes the greatest, part of life at the bottom of the fea, but rifes fometimes 



he furfacej and, to do fo, it is obliged, pifi 



diftend an air-bladder 



which however is formed only for the prefent occalion, and made of a tough vifcid 



flime (welled 





(icular tranfparent mafs, th 



flicks 



the head of the anima 



pening of the (hell. This raifes and iuflains it while it pleafes 



the furface ; b 



hen 



wants to return 



ken up many of thefe infects 



f the (h 



d flill prefer ve fome with 



off its bladder and (ink 

 th the bladder yet affixed to the aper 

 it on, in fpirits. I have alfo obferv 



I 



ed many of the veficulae themfelves fwimming upon the furface of the water 



about that pi 



which induced me to think they were thrown off as the 



red. It is obfervab 



pon touching the body of this infect, it diffufes 



beautiful purple liquor, of which colour the (hell generally appears while it is freft 



Tab. 39. % 



bladd 



er, 



b 



prefents the (hell of this creature in two attitudes, with its 

 appears both in the natural and preferved ftate. 



COCHLEA 2. Subfufca £? fubrotunda major \ fafcid longitudinali albidd, ore 



ampliori libero, umbilico claufo. 



The larger brown Snail with a white longitudinal ftripe. 



This is reprefented in Lyjler, L 1. N. 49. 





COCHLEA 3. Comprejfa, ore integro, umbilico claufo. 



The middle-nzed Antique Lamp. 



COCHLEA 4. Subcompreffa y ore unidentato, umbilico fubperfc 



Cochlea. Lyjl. 95. & D'arg. 1. 1 1. D. 



The Antique Lamp with one tooth. 





COCHLEA 5. Subcompreja ad marg 



bidentato. 



ndior, umbilico claufo, ore 



COCHLEA 



The Antique with two teeth. 



COCHLEA 6. SubcompreJJd, margine acuto, umbilico perforate, ore bidentato. 



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The thin-edged Antique with an open navel. See Lyjl. 8$. 



y. Subcompreffa tenuior, margine acuto, umbilico perforato* 



T. 40. f. A. & Cochlea Lyft. 80, 8 1. 



The thin Antique with a very fharp margin and an open navel. 



I have not yet feen any of thefe with a lip. 



COCHLEA 8. Subtumida collo coarftata, fauce quadridentatd, umbilic* 



claufo. 



The middle-fized Antique with four teeth. 



9 . Subtumida collo coarfiata, fauce quadridentata, ambitu lined 



COCHLEA 



acuta cintla 



The middle-fized Antique with a line round the middle. 



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COCHLEA 



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