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hiftory of other animals of this genus, at prefent fo little un- 

 derflood, I have drawn out a more particular account of it; 

 which, if you think it deferves attention, you may prefent to 

 th.e Royal Society. 



This animal was found on the fouth-eaft coafl: of Barbadoes, 

 dole to Charles Fort, about a mile from Bridge Town, in fome 

 fhoal water, feparated from the fea by the Itones and fand 

 thrown up by the dreadful hurricane, which happened in the 

 year 1780, and did fo much mifchief to the ifland. 



The wind, in the beg-inninp* of the Iform, which w^as in the 

 afternoon, blew very furioufly from the north-wefl:, making a 

 prodigious ifweil in the fea ; and in the middle of the night 

 changing fuddenly to the fouth-eaft, it blew from that quartef 

 upon the fea, already agitated, forcing it upon the fhore with 

 •fo much violence, that it threw down the rampart of Fort 

 .Charles, which was oppofed to it, although thirty feet broad, 

 bv the buriling of one lea. It forced up, at the fame time, im- 

 menfe quantities of large coral rocks from the bottom of the 

 bay, making a reef along this part of the coafl for the extent 

 of feveral miles, at only a few yards diflance from the fhore. 



The foundings of the harbour were found afterwards to be 

 ir.tirely changed, by the quantity of materials removed from 

 the bottom in different places. In the reef of coral was found 

 an infinite number of large pieces of brain-ftone, containing 

 the (hell of this animal; but the animals had either been 

 long dead, or more probably deftroyed by the motion of th^i 

 rocks in the ftorm : fome few of the brain- ftones, however, 

 that had been thrown beyond the reef, and lodged in the fhoal 

 water, receiving lefs injury, the animals were preferved unhurt. 



The animal, with the fhell, is almofl intirely inclofed in the 

 brain -flone, fo that at the depth in which they generally lie, 



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