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The Natural Hiffory of the Book IX. 
The HartT’s-HORN CORAL. 
oI HIS takes its Name from the great Refemblance its wide-extended 
Branches have to an Hart’s-horn, both in Colour and Shape :, They 
grow upon Rocks, at different Depths under Water : The Branches are 
of a brownifh White, but always at the Top fharp-pointed, and tipped 
with a clear White: They are of fo clofe a Texture, that, when ftruck by 
any Piece of hard Wood or Iron, they afford a metallic vibrating Sound : 
This Sort grows to be often above five Feet in Length, I have likewife 
feen a leffer Sort, refembling the palmed Hart’s-horn. 
The Pan SuHoat, or HonEYcoms STONES. 
Ze HESE are to be found under Water at different Depths, from two 
to twenty Feet: Their Shape generally refembles a Honeycomb, 
and that not only as they are broad with a fimilar Thinnefs, but like- 
wife as they are full of Holes: Several of thefe, efpecially near the thickeft 
Edge, are cemented, or, as it were, waxed over, exactly refembling that 
Part of an Honeycomb which is filled with Honey. From the Stone 
when broken, drops a liquid Subftance of the Confiftence of thin Oil. 
Thefe in few Years grow to a confiderable Bignefs, and are to be found 
upon almoft all the Shores, more particularly at a Place in S¢. Lucy’s 
Parifh, called Fryer’s Well. . 
The WuitTeE CorAL. 
fT HIS Coral is found upon the Shores of moft Bays in: the Ifland : 
The Stars are compofed of fo many thin Partitions ; the interme- 
diate Space, between each Line, hollow; and the folid waved Inter- 
ftices of the Coral-fmooth, hard and well-polifhed : Thefe intervening 
Ribs rife higher than the Star-like Refemblances. 
This is delineated in Plate XVII. Fig. 7. 
TheMILLiporA PERFORATA. 
aL. HIS is all over perforated into innumerable fmall Holes, gene- 
rally of an equal Size: I am of Opinion, that thefe Holes were 
formerly filled with ftar-like Subftances; but, as the Rays which 
compofe thefe, are from their fofter Texture, as well as their hollow In- 
terftices, lefs able to bear the violent Toflings of the Waves againft the 
fharp-pointed Rocks, that thefe Stars, in time, were fo intirely broken, 
‘nothing now remains, but the Holes which they once occupied, among 
the ftony Ribs. 
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