OF FOSSIL - SHELLS, &c. 105 



acute (p). In the fame ftone with the two Trocus's from Allen- 

 Heads. 



I have it alfo from the clay-bank above the bridge at Simw- 

 burn. 



In the oftiam of a ftreamlet by the Pftzj-meadows, below the 

 fmelting-mill at Allen-heads, there are numerous cafts of it in 

 large mafTes of an ochreous yellow fand-ftone, with which it is 

 almoft entirely compofed ; faid to have been drawn up the fhaft 

 of a lead-mine. I have alfo met with cafts of it in the fame 

 kind of ftone on the fear by die brook, and the road, near Simon- 

 rw-caftle, on the fouth-weft fide of the ford. I have feen fair 

 impreffions of it in the freeftone from the iLore of the brook be- 

 low Tecket. 



7. A flender bodied cochlea, elegantly marked with yellowifli- 

 brown linear fpots on a white ground, and expanded valves. 

 From the limeftone-quarry at Blake-laiv, near Simonbxrn. 



8. A fair impreffion in yellow ochre of the fmall ribbed peclen 

 or fcallop (q). Found in levelling the area before Nunivick-halL 



9. The fmall, fine ribbed, echinated peclen. From the clay- 

 banlj. above the bridge at Sintonburn. 



10. A fair impreffion of a fingle valve of the convex tellina 

 with dfeop tranfverfc furrows, and obtufe ridges, in fine yellow 

 ochre (r). Found with the fmall ribbed pecteu y No. 8. 



(p) Plot's Staffordfliire. Morton's Northamptonfliire, p. 214. tab. 7. Fig. 2. 



(tj) Cardium (edule) tefta antiquata fulcis xxvi obfoletc imbricatis. Linn. Syft. Nat. 

 p. 681. n. 77. Faun Suec. p. 518. n. 2141. 



FofT. Hant. p. 39. pi. 8. n. 98. Lift. Angl. tab. 5. fig. 31. 



(r) Morton's Northampt. p. 211. tab. 6. fig. 15. 



Venus (gallina) tefta fubcordata, fulcls tranfverfis obtufis, cardinis dente poflico mirimo. 

 Linn. Syft. Nat. p. 685. n. 96. Fofl". IJant. p. 37. pi. 7. fig. 90. 



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