LETTERS 



"To the Rev'- Mr. CHARLES MASON, 



Woodwardian Profeflbr /// the Univerfity of 

 Cambridge, and Fellow of 'Trinity College. 



LETTER L 



S I R, 



HA D I been informed either of your Perfon 

 or Courtefy before the other day, you 

 might fooner have heard from me; or had I 

 (when at Nevis) imagined my Shells would ever 

 have been lodged in fo honourable a Place, the 

 CoUeftion Ihould have been larger, if not more 

 curious : Hov^ever, I cannot help giving you the 

 trouble of reading my prefent Thoughts upon 

 them ; which though not methodical, or per- 

 haps free from Miflakes in fome refpedls, yet as I 

 have committed no wilful Miftake, a Gentleman 

 of your known Candour will eafily pardon and 

 pafs fuch over. 



2. Thefe Shells are found upon that part of 

 the Coaft of Nevis where the Sea is moft fubjeft 

 to Rocks on the Weftcrn fide, and with good 

 reafon, viz, becaufe the fmooth fandy Bays arc 

 daily vifited by our Fifhermen's long Net called 

 ;i Seine; or rather becaufe there is a greater quan- 



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