2 LETTER I. 



tity of Mofs, Weeds, and other Nourifhment, to 

 fupport them among the lefs difturbed Rocks: 

 They have no Names whh us there ; for we 

 feldom or never eat of them, unlefs it be a large 

 particular fort of Wilk, whofe Shells are finely 

 poliihed, and made into Snuff-boxes (very com- 

 monly) at London'' "y and except alfo the Cockle 

 which we ufe by way of Sauce to Rock-fifh, 

 Welihmen, Old Wives, Cavallies, &c. Their 

 meat for Colour, Shape, and Tafte refembles our 

 Englifh ones, but they are delicious at full of 

 the Moon, increafing and decreafing in bulk as 

 well as goodnefs, juft as that Heavenly Body 

 feems to increafe or decreafe to our fight : You 

 have at ieafl: a dozen of the Shells (no ways 

 fliaped like our Englilh Cockles) that are fmali 

 and of a triangular Form, but not equilaterally 

 fo, two Sides of them being each of them full as 

 long again as the fhort Side ; all the three An- 

 gles are rounded off or blunted ; they are of a 

 white fhining Colour like well polifhed white 

 Marble, and generally fpeaking ftreaked down- 

 wards very regularly with beautiful Red or Blue 

 Veins. They are taken in the following manner, 

 mz, A Negro Man goes in at one of our fandy 

 Bays up to his knees, where fl;ooping down he 

 fills a Balket with Sand from the bottom, which 



^ Note^ That a Wilk Fiih both looks and eats exadtly like 

 our Englifh PerriwinkJe. 



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