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port, called Myos Hormos, which commentators have called 

 the Port of the Moufe, when they mould have translated 

 it, the Harbour of the Muriel. This nfh contains often pearls 

 of great beauty for luftre and fhape, but feldom of a white 

 or clear water. Pliny relates this to be the cafe in the Itau 

 lian feas, and alfo in the Thracian Bofphorus, where he obi- 

 ferves they are more frequent. 



The fecond fort of fhell which generally contains the 1 

 pearl is called. Pinna. It is broad and femicircular at the 

 top, and decreafes till it turns fharp at the lower end, where 

 is the hinge. It is rough and figured on the outfide, of a 

 beautiful red colour, exceedingly fragil, and fometimes 

 three feet long. In the infide it is cloathed with a molt 

 beautiful lining called Nacre, or mother-of-pearl, white, tin* 

 ged with an elegant blufh of red. Of this molt delicate 

 complexion is the pearl found in this nih, fo that it feems 

 to confirm the fentiments of M. Reamuron the formation of 

 pearls, that they are formed of that glutinous fluid which 

 is the firft origin of the fhell, that it forms- the pearl of the 

 fame colour and water that is communicated to it from 

 that part of the fhell with which it is more immediately in 

 contacl, and which is generally obferved in the pinna to be 

 higher in colour as it approaches the broadeft, which is the 

 reddeft end. 



Upon the matureft consideration, I can have no doubt 

 that the pearl found in this fhell is the penim or peninim 

 rather, for it is always fpoken of in the plural, to which al- 

 lufion has been often made in fcripture. And this derived 

 from its rednefs is the true reafon of irs name. On the 

 contrary, the word pinna has been idly imagined to be de- 



i rived 



