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acquifition in this branch-.. The moil numerous forts are undoubt- animal 

 ediy the cruilaceous y but, among them, we faw none that were 



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' not well marked in the Linnaean fyilem. Here I muft al fo remark,, 



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that there is a fmall fpecies of fcorpion in the tropical ifles of the 

 South-Sea, but more common to the Wefcernmoil: than the Society 

 liles, where I never fawone.. The native, who was with us eight, 

 months, told us they were harmlefs; however, they were armed 

 exadly as their cogeneric fpecies.. It is therefore referved for fu- 

 ture enquiry, to determine by what accidental circumftances the 

 nuiriis of the fcorpion's fting becomes more or lefs deleterious ; efpe— 





cially as the experiments made by Mr. de Maupertuis feem to inti- 



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mate, that even the individuals of the fame fpecies are not all equally 

 poifonous ; and. that one and the fame individual is, at different 



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The Ihells of the South-Sea are 



far lefs various than, might at 



:Sril be expea;ed j and the reefs of the tropical illes generally yield- 

 ed the moil common Linnsean fhells, fuch as cowries, epifcopal 

 mitres, murices tritonis, the moil common, buccina; turbines,, and. 

 nentje. A few fpecies at New-Zee|and, are new, though the 

 greateil part of th^m are minute. In regard to the rnollufca, what 



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