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work. 7. Striated. 8. Pimpled, or with 

 prominent knobs. 9. Smooth-mouthed, or 

 not toothed, as the Weaver's Shuttle, 

 and the Poached Egg ; and loth* Um- 

 bilicated, as the Pewit's Eggs; which two 

 laft he places in the Cowry family. By 

 this expofition it is plainly feen, that, had 

 he made an anfwerable index, a perfbii 

 might immediately find, without turn- 

 ing pages over or wafting time, whether 

 Lifter figured the Cowry fought for, fooner 

 than in any other author. However, I con-^ 

 fefs, I think it rather too much clogged^ 

 or circumftantial. 



An author, whom I did not mention 

 in my lift of writers on ShellSj as being 

 only a defcriber of a mufeum, I mean 

 Dr. Grew, in his account of the Royal 

 Society's collection, has given us feveix 

 fchemes, or fyftems of Shells. He di- 

 vides all Shells in his firft fcheme into 

 fingle, not whirled and whirled 5 into 

 doubles, or bivalves, and into multiple, or 

 multivalves. 



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