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a gale, the beach is strewed with numberless 
odd valves, and broken specimens of rare vari- 
eties; and, strange as it may appear, I have 
seen a box full of valves, from this coast, out 
of which a true pair could not be formed. 
THE negroes who trade to Sierra Leon, have 
been induced to bring land shells from the in- 
terior; but, as they often apply fire to the shell, 
in order to drive the animal out, they are there- 
by much injured, and often entirely spoiled. 
From Cape Palmas, the Gold coast, and Bight 
of Benin, and from the rocks and islands in the 
vicinity, more particularly Annabona and St. 
Thomas’s, and the coast of Loango, many rare 
shells have arrived. We know but little of 
the shells found in the Congo or the interior, 
but it is probable that many species unknown 
to us are produced there. We have seen 
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