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mens, as well as of the prickly Trochus 

 or Spur Shell from the Eqji Indies^ and 

 others. 



Buccina^ Trumpet Shells. This Kind 

 of Shell refembles in Form the Trumpet, 

 as it is reprefented in old Sculptures and 

 Paintings : It is a fpiral Shell with a wide 

 Belly, and a large, broad, and elongated 

 Mouth, of an oval Figure, with a crooked 

 Beak ; the fpiral Volutions of this Shell 

 differ in Number, being fometimes fix, 

 at others ten or twelve, and one Kind has 

 the Volutions reverfed. 



Stromhi^ are a Kind of Turbines, the 

 Tower of Babel, the Mitre Shell, the 

 Spindle, and fome others are ranked un- 

 der this Title but they are feldom by 

 the Naturalifts mentioned as a diftind 

 Kind. 



7* urhines^ Screw Shells. This Kind has 

 a long, wide, and depreffed Mouth, often 

 approaching to a circular Form, fome- 

 j times dentated, at others not; it grows 

 ' narrow towards the Bafe, is auriculated, 



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