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give victory to ‘the army which first uses ‘it ; but, 
after the improvement is generally known, it. will 
diminith the carnage in battles,’’ 
_ The above words, it is well known, were printed 
in an efsay which was presented to the Duke of Rich- 
mond in the year 1788; and many copies of it were 
presented, to the frieads of the author Phat, 
‘* every improvement in field pieces will give vic- 
‘‘ tory to the army which first uses  it,’’ has been 
lately proved, by the armics’of France, to the con- 
viction of Europe. That ‘* after the improvement is 
“* generally, known, it may diminifh the carnage in 
“¢ battles,”, must be the prayer of every lover of the 
human kind, in every age, and in every country. 
Praying sincerely that it may be so, I am_ re- 
-spectfully, Sir, 
Your most obedient Servant A RIDER. 
Sir, To the Editor of the Bee. 
Your correspondent Th. R. from Sutherland states a 
fact well known in the natural history oftestaceous a- ~ 
nimals, but from the similarity of fhapeI suppose he 
has mistaken the species of fhell fifh found inthe 
stone, which I am apt to think was notamuscle as des- 
cribed by him, but a pholas, the history of which at 
‘considerable length he will find in La Conchyliologie 
de Mr D‘Argenville, and figured in plate 26 fig. K. 
of part first, and plate 7 fig. S. of part second. It 
is also described in Pennant’s zoology vol. 4. p. 77, 
and called by him pholas parvus, and a figure given 
‘plate xt. fig. 13. Shells of this species are frequent- 
ly met with in Scotland, and are found in great 
“quantities at Toulon in Provence, and at Ancona in' 
