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too larg-e to remain ia that preceding it. If, as the 

 animal deserted its smaller tenements, one after the 

 other, they had been filled, up with solid matter, the 

 shell would have become too cumbersome for its owner; 

 so that we have here another proof of the providing care 

 of tne Creator. We shall desciibc, in Mr. Bennet's own 

 words, the capture of this interesting object. 



THE PEARLY NaI;T1LUS, 



Sliowing the Aniuuil, ami a Section of its Shell. 



" It was on the twenty-fourth of August, 1829, (calm 

 and fine weather, thermometer at noon 79^,) in the 

 evening, when the ship Sophia was lying at anchor, in 

 Marakini Bay, on the south-west side of the island of 

 Erromanga, one of the New Hebrides group, Southern 

 Pacific Ocean, that something was seen floating on the 

 surface of the water, at some distance from the ship ; to 



