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The Natural Hiftory of the Book IX.. 
fo commonly growing to the Roots of thofe Trees, in feveral of our 
W eft-India Iflands. 
The RED SPECKLED WILK-SHELL. 
HESE Shells are beautifully ftreaked with fmall broken Veins 
of Red upon a white Ground : They are to be found in Plenty 
clinging to the Rocks on the Leeward-fide of the Ifland, efpecially in 
St. Lucy's Parith. 
The BLUE and WHITE-MARBLED WILK-SHELL. 
HIS is of the Make and Bignefs of the laft-mentioned, and differs 
_ only in this, that the white Ground of this is finely fpeckled with 
blue broken Streaks: Thefe are likewife found chiefly in the Leeward- 
part of the Ifland. 
The BLACKIsH WILK-SHELLS. 
HESE are of the Bignefs of the laft deferibed ; and I take them 
| to be the fame Species, but that the Shells of thefe are turned. black 
with Age, 
PUNCHES. 
T HESE long flender Worms are very feldom feen. Their Habitations 
are innumerable Clufters of wreathed vermicular open-mouthed 
Tubes, cemented together into irregular Lumps, and fometimes into 
large Beds many Feet in Circumference: Thefe Tubes differ in Colour, 
being fome of an Amber-colour, fome black, and others of a dirty 
White. The Aperture, by which the Worm enters, is round and open, 
of the Bignefs of a Raven’s Quill. The Edges of thefe Tubes are {o fharp, 
that they will, if trod upon, cut a circular Incifion in the Flefh, leaving 
the middle Space of their Diameters untouched : This Pun@ure exactly 
refembles the Impreflion made upon Leather by an Inftrument, which 
the Shoemakers call a Punch, Thefe are generally found between high 
and low Water-Mark. i 
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