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the Cape of Good Hope. It is never found in fresh 

 water, but the best place for it is in salt water about 

 from two hundred feet deep to the shore. There are 

 three hundred and seventy-one different kinds of Cone 

 shells living, and eighty-four kinds fossil. 



"The shell is about three inches in length, and 

 one and a half in diameter. It is covered with angu- 

 lar white spots on a very dark brown background. 

 The spots are edged with a light orange color. The 

 spire is very short and the apex is very blunt. The 

 aperture is long and narrow, extending the whole 

 length of the body whorl. The inside of it is white 

 and a delicate pink. The suture has little teeth about 

 one-eighth of an inch apart, and the same in height. 

 These teeth are white. The surface of the shell is 

 very smooth, and it is quite thick and heavy. The 

 body whorl is about four times as large as all the other 

 whorls taken together, and the base is grooved. There 

 is a little notch at the end of the aperture, near the 

 suture. 



11 The mollusk lives on the flesh of other mollusks 

 and occasionally on seaweed. It likes a warm climate 

 and hollow rocks with a very little water. It travels 

 very slowly." Ella. 



The Wind. 

 " The air is very still this morning. I could not 



