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Note J page 14, line 9. 



Roll thy enonnous bulk at ease, 

 Gigantic Chama ! in the seas, 



Chama Gigas, inhabits the Indian Ocean, and is sometimes so 

 small as not to measure an inch in length, sometimes far exceeds 

 all other testaceous productions, having been found of the weight 

 of 532 pounds, and the fish or inhabitant so large, as to furnish 

 120 men with food, and strong enough to cut asunder a cable and 

 lop off men's hands. — Linnmis. There are two Chamas in the 

 beautiful grotto, belonging to Gabriel Goldnej, Esq. Clifton, 

 near Bristol, that measure more than | yard in length, and more 

 than I in breadth. There is also a tine Chama at Miller and Sweet's 

 Nursery Garden, near Bristol. 



Note ^, page 16, line 1. 



No longer Ostrea ! does thy hue. 

 Of saffron tint or pearly blue. 



The Ostrea Jacobea, is in this place particularly alluded to ; it 

 was formerly worn by Pilgrims, as an emblem that they had cross- 

 ed the sea in their way to the Ploly Land, or some distant object 

 of devotion ; hence they are still preserved in the armorial bear- 

 ings of several families of distinction. 



An attentive observer, M. de Lavoye, recently remarked on 

 opening an oyster, a shining matter, or blueish light, resembling 

 a star, about the centre of the shell, which appeared to proceed 

 from a small quantity of real phosphorus. On being taken from 

 the animal it extended to neaily half an inch in length; and when 

 immersed in water, seemed in every respect the same as the 

 phosphorus obtained from bones, &c. The oyster itself was 



