Book IX. Ifand of BARBADOS, a 
Shell-Fifh is generally found flightly covered with Sand, which I 
take to be their Security from being perceived by Crabs, Conchs, Or 
other Animals, which prey upon them: Their Surfaces are covered | 
with thick fetaceous Vi//i; and the Middle of the Shell is by {mall 
Punctures divided into the Appearance of five narrow rofaceous Leaves, 
as well as four oblong Holes. of near half an Inch long, and a quarter 
wide. Perhaps Nature intended thefe, that the Fith might faften itfelf by 
them to the Points of Stones or Rocks in the Bottom, left the Current 
fhould drive them away from their F eeding-place, or Place of Safety. 
Plate XXVIII. Fig. 3. Fig. 4. . 
~The Musse.-Sue tt. 
Y < HIS is not here above an Inch and an half long at moft; and the 
inclofed Fifh is proportionably fmaller, a dozen of them. not 
weighing an Exglifh one: Thefe I have found in Beds to the Leeward 
_ of the Ifland in the Parith of Sz Lucy. 
The LARGE WHITE CockLe. 
XHES Eare found near Meedham’s Fort. The Shell is a great deal 
_ larger than that of the Engli/b Cockle, and flatter. ; 
The Rispep Limper. 
H ESE are ‘called here the Wipple-Shell. Some are of a white 
Colour, others brownifh, and’ {ome fpotted: ‘There are likewife of 
thefe Species fome that are {mooth, | + sede't 
The 'FHIMBLE-LIMPET. 
<. HIS is fmaller, and more compreffed, than the laft-deferibed, 
\ 
The Rock-OysTErR. 
HIS is a rocky rather than a fhelly Subftance. It grows to the 
Side of moffy Shoals and Rocks at different Diftances from the 
Shore. When opened, they have the Refemblance of a Shell'on the In- 
fide, and contain a flefhy Subftance, in Tafte very much refembling an 
_Oyfter, differing very little, if any thing, from the NtegencesO fers 
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