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you fee four or five fets of Rows that are exxeed- 

 ing fine and narrow Cavities, thorough which 

 the Water defcends into the Body of the Shell 

 where the Fifh refides: Thefe Cavities projeft 

 out from near the Center an Inch or better to- 

 wards the Edges in the form of Peach-tree 

 Leaves : There is a round hole in the Center on 

 the under fide that goes up into the Body of the 

 Shell. As I never found any more of the fort, 

 fo I thought it a pity to break that in pieces 

 purely to examine the infide. 



9. In the Month of July^ ^1^9^ one Mr. 

 Mofcs Ptnheiro a Jew and myfelf, went to an- 

 gle in Black Rock Pond, which is fituate a quar- 

 ter of a mile or better Northwards from Charles 

 Town our Metropolis or Capital, and about thirty 

 yards diftant from the Sea. Mr. Pinheiro'^ Hook 

 catched hold on fomething at the bottom of the 

 Pond, and he ordered my Negro Man Oxford 

 to ftrip, dive, and unloofe it. Oxford went in- 

 deed to the bottom, but came again without ef- 

 feding it ; and faid, that it was entangled in a 

 fmall Bufh that grew in the bottom of the Pond, 

 which was in that place about two yards and a 

 half deep. However, he dived again, and after 

 a few fiurdy pulls, brought up the Bufh, Roots 

 and all. Both its Roots and Branches were vifibly 

 enough alive, but without either Bark or Leaves, 

 it being covered over wnth a foft blackifh fub- 



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