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period. This rarity was disposed of, as I have been informed, at a 

 price exceeding that of the former, and passed shortly after, I believe, 

 into the Imperial cabinet, at Vienna, or otherwise into one of the 

 continental cabinets in the north of Europe, a circumstance we have 

 not, at this distant period, any means whatever of determining. 



The accordance between this shell and the celebrated Cedd 

 tiulli of Lyonef s cabinet, which, as before intimated, was estimated 

 at the value of three hundred guineas, will not escape the remark 

 those who are acquainted with the description of Lyonet's shell; 

 According to Favanne there were two or more varieties of the 

 Cedo nuUij in his time, in France, that bore a Very near resemblance 

 to the shell of Lyonet ; he speaks of one in the cabinet of Madame? 

 La Presidente de Bandeville, which differed in its marbling of 

 white : in being larger and more prolonged upon the top of the first 

 wh )r], ather larger, and interrupted with veins of orange, and the 

 last of the two belts of white spots which follows this zone near the 

 bottom of the first whorl, composed of rather larger spots; with 

 these exceptions the two shells were precisely the same. 



The Cedo nulli of Lyonet is described as being of a yellowish 

 feolour, divided into bands, the lower one and that in the middle 

 iTiarbled with white, the other two marked, the one with four li.t'ei 

 belts with white dots^ the second with only three 



* Le Cedo Nulli k bancles, ou dont la robe jaunatre se partage en quarre 

 bands, rinferieurc et celle du milieu sontcomparties de marbrures blanches, 

 les deux autres sont remplies, Tune de quatre cordelettes k point blancs/ 

 la second de trois seulement. Tom. 1, p. 442i 



