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«= eu tou jours foin de les noyer dans de l'eau avant que de les 

 « ouvrir." Si Gelon ftipuloit pour l'humanite.* Quand il in- 

 terdifoit aux Carthaginois vaincus, les facrifices humains ; 

 Lyonet ftipuloit pour Fanimalite quand il tracoit ainfi les de- 

 voirs de l'anatomifte, en fe peignant fi naivement lui-meme. 



Description, of Fig. i, Plate XIIL 



Of the Lepas* Anatifera, or Barnacle. 



This is a: very peculiar fpecies of lliell-fifh the fhell is not 

 eompofed of two pieces, or valves, as is the ufual cafe, but of 

 five ; two of thefe are larger than the reft, to which are affixed 

 two {mailer ones; the fifth piece is long, (lender, and crooked,, 

 running down lengthways,, and covering the joinings of the other 

 pieces. It is a tender and brittle fhell-filh, in length about an 

 inch, it's diameter about three quarters of an inch. The {hell 

 part is of a pale red^ variegated with white ; it adheres to a neck, 

 or pedicle, of an inch long, and about a fifth of an inch in* 

 diameter; by which means it is affixed: to old wood, to {tones, 

 and fea plants, or any other folid fubftanee that lies under water. 

 It can fhorten or extend this neck at pleafure, which refembles a: 

 fmall gut, and is ufually full of a glarious liquor ; it is eompofed 

 ©f two membranes, an external one, hard and brown, an internal, 

 one, foft, and of an orange colour. The larger portions of the 

 (hell open and {hut in the manner of the bivalves; the others, 

 leing moveable by means of their membranous attachments, give 



way/ 



* Montesquieu, Efprit des Loix. 



