Book IX. I/land of BARBADOS. 283 
The Prickty Ham-Musset. 
TT HIS Shell is often eight Inches lotig, fmooth within, and rough 
™ without ; being ftudded without jutting feeming Tubes. This is 
feldom found with Fifh in them on our Shores. | a 
The Larce THrREAD-GiRDED CockiE. 
oF HIS is a large flat Cockle, generally found in the Sand near 
Needham’s Fort. | | 
GRATER SCALLOP. 
“3 HES E are here but f{mall, and very feldom found on our Shores, 
CURL-GIRDED NEEDLE. 
£2 F1IS is vety fharp-pointed, of about two Inches long and wreath- 
ed. From the Ufe made of it, it is often called here she Tobacco- 
Stopper. I have found thefe upon the green Shoal near Six Men’s Fort 
in S¢. Peter's Parifh, ‘The Fifh inhabiting this Shell, when it moves, 
carries it upright: When. Numbers of thefe are together, and in Mo- 
tion, they refemble a Grove of Spears. 
TRITON’s TRUMPET. 
Ws HIS is the largeft, as well as the moft beautiful of the ‘Turbinate 
Kind, and very feldom to be met with upon our Shores: Thefe 
are beautifully ftained with black and white Spots, and the Shell is often 
nine Inches long, 
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