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have it drunk 1 again with the Tyrian Dye, that they might 

 have* it degraded with a Name compounded of both (Tyri- 

 amethystus), correspondent to their two-fold Luxury. Also, 

 after they have accomplished the (Colour) Conchylium, they 

 think it better prepared to pass into the Tyrian. It should 

 seem that these double Dyes came first from the after- 

 thought of the Workman, when he employed his Skill to 

 change what he had done and disliked. And from this is 

 come a Consideration, and a Desire is derived from a Fault 

 by those portentous Contrivances ; and the twofold Way of 

 Luxury is displayed, by laying one Colour upon another, 

 with great Labour, so as to render it what is called more 

 pleasant and delicate. Nay, they also mix the Dye of Land- 

 colours ; for what is already dyed with the Coccus, they dye 

 again in the Tyrian Purple, to make the Hysginum. 



The Coccus is a red Grain that cometh from Galatia, as 

 we shall show in our Account of (Plants) of the Land ; or 

 else about Emerita, in Lusitania (Portugal), and that, of all 

 other, is most esteemed. But to sum up in one Word these 

 noble Colours, note this, that when this Grain is one Year 

 old, it maketh but a weak Tincture ; but after four Years, 

 the Strength of it is gone. So that, neither young nor old, is 

 it of any great Strength. Thus I have sufficiently treated of 

 those Means which both Men and Women think best fitted 

 to set themselves out in the best Manner. 



CHAPTER XLII. 



Of the Pinna, and the Pinnoter : and the Perception of 

 Fishes. 



THE Pinna 2 is also of the Class of Shell-fishes. It is pro- 

 duced in muddy Places, always standing nearly upright; but 

 never without a Companion, which they call Pinnoteres, or, 

 according to some, Pinnophylax. 3 This is a little Shrimp, or 



' Alluding to the word " Amethyst," which resisteth drunkenness. 

 Holland. 



3 Pinna ingens and P. rotundata, LINN. Wern. Club. 

 3 Pinnotheres veterum and P. pisum. Wern. Club. 



