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Lcipsich hath invented this niethcjcle, but he never W(juld coni- 

 municate the way to prepare them so; till at last I found it out 

 a few years ago, and communicate it to our good friend Mr. (,"oI- 

 linson, by whose care it is printed in the philos. Transact, num. 

 463. I send also to you a bit of what Tournefort calls Fucus 

 manum rejerens , and which is exceding wel represented. [D(;cr] 

 Boerhave taketh it for a fucus. this body is frecjuent at our sea 

 coast, having at first a great reference to the Spongia, being full 

 of water, but this once being pressed out, it never soaks (4) water 

 again, but then it appears that it is a congeries of pipes, wherein 

 breeds the polypi, but four times larger than the sweet water 

 polypi of Mr. Trembly, and so plentifull that I believe in this 

 little bit were more than a million of these creatures, which 

 being cut in four or five pieces, do live, grow and become soon 

 the same posture [shape], as the first was. 



"Now I give you the witch names of the shells you was pleased 

 to send to me. 



"i. Large fresh water muscle breeding in the creeks in the hilly 

 part of the countrey. Concha testa oblonga, media antice 

 contracta. Linn. faun. 1331. 



"34. Antiqua. this creature is the Heremite [Crab] Cancer 

 macrourus cauda molli testa cochlea inclusa; chela dextra minore. 

 We have such a creature to at our sea coast, but difTers that the 

 chela dextra is much larger. 



"35. Under this nummer you sent to me 3 sorts of shells 

 "a. cochlea oblonga fluviatilis. petiv. gazoph. t. 18 f. 8 

 "b. cochlea trium orbrum. List, conch, t. 140 f. 16 

 "c. concha testa subglobosa glabra, carnei coloris, sulco trans- 

 versale. Linn. faun. 1336. 

 "39. Sea clam, chama fusca lata planor. List, conch, t. 423 f. 259 

 "40. Bay clam, pectunculus margine dense crenato, velut ex 

 viola purpurascens ib. t. 271. f. 117 

 "41. Oyster. Ostrea virginiana List, conch, t. 200 n. 35 

 "2. Sea blak smal muscle, concha testa oblonga laevi subviolacea. 



Linn. faun. 1333. 

 "6. Shining Sea snails 



"a. Buccinum brevirostrum clavicula breviore, labio interno 

 insigniter repando, ore atro purpureo splendente 



