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thorn and a candle, after the high fpring-tides, about the full 

 moon, efpecially in February and March, when they may be 

 eafily feen with one end erect above the fands. The fhells are 

 ufually from fix to feven inches and a half long, and one broad ; 

 open at both ends ; the exterior cuticula, or covering, when firll 

 taken, brown, with a tinge of yellow, which fhrivels and falls 

 off after the fifli is dead, and expofed to the fun. This fifli is a 

 tethys, cartilagenous, and glabiated, with fmall auricles, or ears, 

 and four tentacula ; white, or of a cream-colour ; in great cfteem 

 at the table in fome places, under proper culinary management, 

 but only ufed with us as a bait. 



9. The orange and 'white So/en is found in the fame fands. It is 

 in all refpects like the lafl, except the colour, which is a deep 

 orange and white, in tranfverfe fillets, in alternate variegations. 



10. The long and broad Conch-Shell, with alternate fillets of yellow, 

 carmine and white, in a beautiful variegation (h), is frequent 

 on the more near Rofs-links, with the common yellow ones. 



11. The long and broad Conch, with yellow, dark brown, and 

 light and deep blue fillets, is found on the fame more. The 

 iifh is much efteemed in fome places. 



12. The large, round, thick, and taivney Conch (i), is frequent on 

 the whole coaft. The inveftient cutlcula is a black-tawney, which 



(h) Concha tenuis, longa, lataque, in me.liis cardinibus cavitate quadam pyriformi infig- 

 nita. Id. t. 4. f. 19. Hen-Fifli. Hantoniens. 



(i) Concha e maximis, admodum crafl'a, rotunda, ex nigro refufcens. Lift. Angl. p. 173. 

 t. 4. f. 22. 



fhrivels 



