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spines are placed in bunches, collectively, forming a radiated 

 and diversified appearance, highly ornamental and pleasing. 

 We have therefore (it being hitherto undescribed by any 

 author) to mark it by a distinction and to separate it from 

 its congeners, which are very numerous, given it the specific 

 name of the Echinus Stellaris, from a fancied resemblance 

 to the twinkling rays of a star. It may be indeed remarked 

 as a very fortunate circumstance, that the spines should be 

 go well preserved, as that part is the most apt to sutler from 

 carriage and external injury. We present it therefore to our 

 readers, undecorated by any gaudy lustre of colours, not 

 doubting that the curious construction exhibited in its 

 formation, will entirely atone for want of splendor. The 

 infinite variety of the works of the Creator, as exhibited 

 even in the les sbeautiful objects of investigation, are sufficient 

 to excite wonder and astonishment even in the most unin* 

 formed, minds, much more so with those cultivated by 

 knowledge, who, as the divine Shakespear has so admirably 

 expressed it, can still find 



" Books in the running brooks ; 



Sermons in stones, and good in every thing." 



