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were five tails of ferpents*, waved and attenuated toward the 

 upper part of the Hones. They tell us alfo a ftory of its being 

 engendered from the falivation-znd. /lime of flakes, and call into 

 the Air by the force of their fibilations, where if taken, has ef- 

 fects\is wonderful as its generation, and therefore of great efteem 

 amongft the French Druids. But I care not to fpend my time in 

 Romance, and therefore proceed 



84. To another Echinites, refembling the inner fhell of the 

 Echinus ovarium or Efculentus, fo called from a fort of quinque- 

 partite or ftellated eggs, that this kind of Echinus has within it 

 good to eat. Their outermoft coat is full of Jbarp prickles, upon 

 which account they are fomtimes called Chaftaignes de Mer, or 

 fea Chefnuts, becaufe of their likenefs to rough prickles that 

 encompafs Chefnuts whil'ft they are on the Tree ; for which ve- 

 ry reafon they are alfo called Heriffons de Mer, fea Hedg-hogs, and 

 Cardui Marini, fea Thifiles : which rough coat of theirs, when 

 the Fifh is dead, coming off from them, they then difcover 

 their inward Jfjell of that curious vporkjuanfiip, that is lively repre- 

 fented by our (i one, Fig. 5. made up of fo many compartements 

 and eminencies, and fo regularly difpofed*, that, fays Monfieur de 

 Rochefort z (who calls them alfo Pommes de Mer, or fea Apples') 

 the moft ingenious Embroiderer would be much troubled to imi- 

 tate them. This Echinites ovarius was found in the Parifh of 

 Teynton, and fent me by my worthy and ingenious Friend Mr*' 

 Robert Vejfeji, to whom alfo I am beholding for many other mat* 

 ters mentioned in this Effay. 



85. From Teynton alfo was fent me another of this kind, 

 but much fmaller, not exceeding the Rouncival pea, or French 

 Hal/Jet in bignefs and yet with lines of compartement, and o^ 

 ther eminencies as large as the former, but much fewer in num- 

 ber : to which, whether there be any Animal in Nature whofe 

 Jlell will exactly, or for the moft part correfpond, I much que- 

 ftion ; wherefore that it may be examined both at home and a-' 

 broad, I have caufed it to be engraven, Fig. 6. 



86. To which add ^fourth fort with its prickles ftill on, found 

 plentifully in the Quarries near Shotover-hill, very like to the fifth 

 fort of Echinus of Arislotle> as depicted by Rondeletius*, whofe 

 inward fiell it feems is very fmall, but its prickles long and ftub- 



* Hiftoryof che Iflcs Antilles, or Caribby Iflands, chap. 19. aft. 13. a Vt Ti'cibu/Jib. 18. cap- 33. 



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