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Conks. 



Skellop. 



Man of noses. 



Perriwinkles, or wilks. 



Sea snail liorns. 



Fidlars. 



Runners. 



Spanish, or pearl oysters. 



Flattings. 



Tortois and terebin, accounted for 



among the insects. 

 Finger fish. 

 Shrimps. 



FRESH WATER. 



Craw fish. 

 Muscles. 



Whales are very numerous on the coast of North 

 Carolina, from which they make oil, bone, &c., to 

 the great advantage of those inhabiting the sand 

 banks, along the ocean, where these whales come 

 ashore, none being struck or killed with a harpoon 

 in this place, as they are to the northward and 

 elsewhere ; all those fish being found dead on the 

 shore, most commonly by those that inhabited the 

 banks and sea side, where they dwell for that in- 

 tent, and for the benefit of wrecks which some- 

 times fall in upon that shore. 



Of these monsters there are four sorts ; the first, 

 which is most choice and rich, is the sperma cceti 



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