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delicate. It is very probably that which Cette first 

 described, under the name of alalunga, in his 

 History of the Fishes of Sardinia, page 191*. 

 They likewise fish for coral and a variety of shell- 

 fish. Those most commonly caught are the date-j~, 

 whose grubs find no difficulty in securing a lodg- 

 ing in the soft and spongy stone of the shore ; the 

 pinna marina \, of which some attain a very large 

 size, being more than two feet in length ; the 

 prickly oyster §, which they catch even within the 

 harbour; the Noah's ark||; some species of the 

 telline and trumpet-fish, &c. &c. : they likewise 

 sometimes find, though rarely, the nautilus pap- 

 racms ^[. 



The strata of calcareous substances of the 

 islands of Malta and Gozzi, likewise produce 

 abundantly petrifactions and fossils, it were easy 

 to form ample collections of these. I have seen 

 there sea-urchins transformed to spar, very large 

 vermiculars, oolithes, pisolites, the vertebrae of 

 fishes of an enormous size, huge glossopetres, and 

 very beautiful crapaudincs. These two last fossils 



* Sc amber alalunga pinnis fiector alibus lengissimis. Artec]. Gen. 

 Pise. 222. — Scomber pinnis pectoral i bus longissimis, Jiinnulis cauda 



utrinque sefitem Scomber alalunga. Lin. Syst. Nat. See also 



the Encyclop. method. Hist, des Poissons, art. alalunga. 



•(• Plitlas dactylics. Lin. % Pinna nobilis. Lin. § Ostrea 



varia. Lin. || Area Noa. Lin. • Argonauta argo. Lin. 



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