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others polifhed by the fea, of a bright white, with a double 

 feries of fmall apertures, and elegant jtfn*? and papilla. 



The Echini keep the deep waters, near thejhores *. 



i. Of the harder marine S/jelt-Ft/hes, the moft valuable is the 

 Oyjler ; the common fort ; ufually large, and of an excellent 

 tafte j fuch as would have pleafed the niceft Roman palate. 



Cirasis nata forent, an 



Lucrinum ad Saxum, Rutupinoque edita Fundo 

 OSTREA. - J^v. Sat. iv. 



They are on a bank belonging to the Right Honourable the 

 Earl of Tankerville. 



2. ThcfmallRock-OyJter(a), a delicate tafted oyfter, is frequent 

 among our northern fea-rocks. 



3. The common Peftunculus, or Cockle (b), is found in great 

 abundance in the mud and fands at Budle, near Be (ford, vt-y 

 large, and of an excellent tafte. The ihclls are of various < 

 Tours, a pale blue, a deep blue, with white bands or fillets ; ifo 

 white, with blue fillets, tinged with a fea-green ; otiiers vith 

 orange-fillets on a bright white ground, in lighter and deeper 

 fliades. Great numbers of them may be gathered on /xo/r-links,. 

 polifhed by the fea. 



* ECHINOS equora celent. Her, Epift, L. i. Ep. 15. Et femel afpefli Littus dicebat 

 ECHINI. Juv. Sat. iv. 



(a) Oflrea parva faxatilis. Lifl, Angl. t. 4. f. 26. 



(b) Id. t. 5. f. 34. 



4. The 



