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Japan Sea, Yellow Sea, Blue Sea and China Sea ; 

 also on the shores of all the Japan Islands." 



Kdie. 



"The Strombus gigas is a very big shell. My 

 shell weighs three pounds and a quarter, and it is 

 nine inches long and seven inches broad. It has ten 

 whorls and the body whorl is very large. Each 

 whorl has seven or eight spikes, or spines. Each 

 spine on the body whorl is an inch high, and on the 

 next whorl half as much as that, and the next the 

 half of that, and it goes on that way till they get very 

 small. There are seventy-nine or eighty spines on 

 my shell. The aperture is pink, and near the edge 

 of the outer lip it is salmon color, and it is scalloped 

 all the way. Where the spines show inside it is hol- 

 lowed out, and the hollows are very dark pink. This 

 is the prettiest shell that I have ever studied — it is 

 so large and handsome. These shells were found on 

 the shores of Hayti. They are also found on the 

 shores of Cuba, Jamaica, Porto Rico, all the Bahama 

 and Caribbee islands and all other islands in the 

 Caribbean Sea." Ida. 



"When I got up this morning it was very cold 

 indeed, and the window was covered with frost. 

 Although the sun shines very brightly, it does not 

 make the air warm. There is a very strong west 



