Cap. XlX. The Caribby-lflands. m 



ficent entry befet with pearls?, and afterwards feveral rich ap- 

 partements fo clear, fo neat, and enamell'd all over with fo 

 bright a filver-colour, that there cannot in matter of (hell any 

 thing be imagin'd more beautiful. 



CASK. 



THe Cas^ or Head-piece , is of a different bignefs proporti- 

 onably to the heads of fo many fifties as had worn it ; and 

 it is fo named from its figure .* It is lin d within and at the edges, 

 which are thick, flat and jagged, of a Satin carnation colour 

 extreamly bright and mining 5 and on the out-fide it is fafliion'd 

 like a neat Country-building, having many little rifings which 

 are interlaced with a thoufand compartiments, on which there 

 may be feen a waving pannache or feather of divers rare 

 colours. 



LAMBIS. 



THe Lambk hath haply receiv'd that name becaufe the 

 fifh which makes it move hath the figure of a great 

 Tongue , which licks that glutinous moifture lying on the 

 rocks againft which the waves of the Sea beat. This is one of 

 the.largeft fiz'd (hells that are: One of the fides is turned up, 

 as it were to make the greater difcovery of the fair purple co- 

 lour wherewith it is beautifi'd within : But it muft be acknow- 

 ledge, that the (hape being none of the handfomeft, and the 

 outer coat prickled with feveral rough and fharp rifings, it 

 would hardly be receiv'd into the Clofets of the Curious, if 

 Art taking off that outer coat did not difcover the beauty and 

 fmoothnefs of the divers-colour'd ftiell which lay within that 

 courfelhag : The fiih which is lodg'd within the clefts of this 

 little moving rock is fo big, that one of them will make a pret- 

 ty round diflb It may be ferv'd up to the Tables of the daintieft 

 Palats, fo it be well drefs J d with good (tore of Pepper to cor- 

 rect its indigeftion : The (hells burnt to powder and mixt with 

 fand make a cement which defies rain, and all other injuries of 

 the weather. The Lambis yields a found like that of a Huntf- 

 mans horn, and is heard at a great diftance } whence fome of 

 the Inhabitants of the Iflandsufe them tobringtheir people to- 

 gether to meals. 



VENVS-SHELLS. 



THe Venus-fieUs mzy juftly be numbred among the rareft 

 productions of the Sea, whether we confider the de- 

 lightful fmoothnefs wherewith they are glaz'd both within 

 and without, or the diverfity and livelinefs of their colours : 



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