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have spoken as made, possibly, to free the shell-fish from the shell. Moreover, 
there are two holes instead of one. One, above the main hole in the body-whorl, 
could have aided in attaching the handle, but the other hole is shut off from the 
handle by the convolution of the shell. This implement is from the Battey place, 
Pine island, Lee county. 
Ев. 36.—Shell implement. Chokoloskee Key. (About full size.) 
We come next toa Fulgur perversum from Chokoloskee key, shown in Fig. 36, 
which has the usual removal of part of the body-whorl. There is but one perfora- 
tion, which is to the right of the aperture. This hole, which shows no wear, can- 
not have been used for the insertion of a handle, as there is no corresponding hole 
