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fignifying little facrifice-difhes, or fliucerSy 

 was given to the Limpets, from the earlieft 

 Grecian times, and the Roman name from 

 their refemblance to* thofe little difhes ; yet, 

 LinnaEus wantonly tranfpofes the name of 

 Lepas to the Balani ; multivalves conftantly 

 fo named from^ a fancied refemblance they 

 bear to acorns^ and thereby not only over- 

 throws cuftomj^but reafon; for[the fimilitude 

 to' other objeds, from which thefe very bo- 

 dies received thofe original names,' are by 

 him equally tranfpo fed with the very names : 

 for certainly the Balani, though they do 

 not very g/eatly refemble acorns, lefs re-^ 

 femble platters or faueers. In like man- 

 ner, the common received name of Voluta, 

 from a vohendo^ or rolled up, which thefe 

 feem to be, he changes to Conus; and claps 

 that very rejecled name on another family, 

 wherein he does not place a iingle (hell of 

 that kind, always known and diftinguifhed 

 by the name of Volutes, or of a roll flruc- 

 ture. And again, family eighth he calls 

 Strombi ; which contains not one Shell hi- 

 therto known by that name; and the very 

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