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form'd like a cone. Thefe look as if they were turn'd. They 

 are variegated with feveral colours, and many ftreaks, lines, and 

 circles. The fhells of fome are fmooth, thofe of others are 

 covered with a white cretaceous fubftance ; others fhine like mother 

 of pearl f : fo that nature is hardly diverfified in fuch a beautiful 

 variety in any of its other productions, except it be in flowers. 

 Hence we may admire the wifdom and contrivance of the great 

 Creator, and may fay with truth, <c Natura ludendo ferio agit." 

 I have procured drawings of as many different fpecies as I have 

 met with on thefe coafls, and have reprefented them in the plate. 

 Bue-hummer. The Bue-hummer, a particular fpecies of Shell-fifh, which is 

 found here in abundance, but feldom feen in Denmark, unlefs it 

 be by accident, and is called the Hermit-fifh. It has the name 

 of Bue hummer becaufe the head and fore-part of the Fifh are 

 formed fomething like a fmall Craw-fifh or Lobfter, with two 

 large claws, four fmall legs, and three long tentacula, which are 

 as fmall as a hair. The whole fore-part of the Fifh, eyes, mouth, 

 and all, is enveloped in a thin cruftaceous covering, like that of 

 a Lobfter ; but the reft of the body is inclofed in the fhell, being 

 foft and tender, and near two inches long. It much refembles a 

 Craw-fifh, extracted out of the fhell. The Hermits, or Buehura- 

 mers, are inclofed in a fhell of the Wilk-kind, one of the Conchae 

 Turbinate ; audit is of various fizes, from one to four inches in 

 length. Rondeletius, Lib. xvii. cap. xii. mentions feveral forts of 

 this ftrange compofiton of land and fea-animals, which may be 

 called the Craw-fifh-fnail, or the Snail craw-fifh ; but among the 

 various forts he defcribes, none of them is perfectly like this Nor- 

 way Bue-hummer. Geo. Marcgrave alfo defcribes, in his Hift. 

 Nat. Brafilise, Lib. iv. c. n, fuch an animal, by the name 

 of Paranacare; which appears to be twice as big as our Norve- 

 gian Fifh ; for he fays it is three fingers long, and that the body 

 is covered with a few hairs, which we do not find on the Bue- 

 hummer. 



In a work called Nova Literaria Maris Baltici, Anno 1699, 

 Menfe April, p. 118, there is an article inferted by the learned 

 Matth. Hen. Scachthios, then rector in Kisertemynde, to this 

 purpofe : < c Secundus eft cancellus turbinem Norvegicum inhabi- 

 tans: ad infulam Promontorii Cartemundani Romfoam, inter ha- 

 leces retibus irretitos, quatuor ejufmodi cancellos ceperunt pifca- 



f In his magna ludentis nature varietas, tot colorum differentia, tot figurae, planis, 

 concavis, longis, lunatis, in orbem circumaftis, dimidio orbe caefis, m dorium elatis, 

 laevibus, rugatis, denticulatis, ftriatis, vertice muricatim intorto, marginem in mucro- 

 nem emiffo, foris effufo, intus replicato : Jam diftinftione virgulata, cnnita, cnfpa, 

 cuniculatim, pectinatim, imbricatim undata, &c C. Plinius, Lib, ix. cap. 33. 



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