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into dreams and rivers, and cannot be afcertalned but by 

 a knowledge of their feveral animals ; fo that when a fliell 

 is found in water that has never before occurred, it has 

 at once been confidered as belonging to that clement; 

 and has led to innumerable errors, 



13. 

 Obtcsulum. Buccinum obtufulum. Turt. Lin. iv. p. 337. 



Adams Microfc. t. 14. f. 25. 

 JValk. Min. Shells, f. 59. 



'•'The bellied whilk of three fpires with an oval aper- 

 ture: colour opaque white." From Favcrjham Creek; 

 , very rare. 



This is one of the few of Mr. Walker's (hells we have 

 not had an opportunity of examining; have therefore 

 copied the defcription from his work. It is a microfcopic 

 • fpecies. 



14. 

 Breve. Bucciniim breve : tefta quinque anfractibus : longitudinaliter 



coftatis : tranfverCm ftriatis : color albus opacus, cauda. 

 breviffima. Lin. Trans, iii. t. 13. f. 3. 4. (Adams.) 



Shell white, with five whorls, which are longitudinally 

 ribbed and tranfverfely ftriate. Turt. Lin. iv. p. 387. 



15. 

 Mi.NUT'JM. Buccinum minutum : tribus anfraclibus : longitudinaliter cof- 



tatis : color albus opacus, Lin.Trans. ni. t, 13. i. 5. 6. (Adams) 



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