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the yellow Chama, the Ballcet Shell, and 

 the reticulated white Chama, are curious. 



'Telling ^ are a Kind of beautiful Mufcles, 

 common enough in Italy^ particularly about 

 Rome ; their Form inclines to an Oval, 

 and the Shell thin. For the moft part 

 when they are feen in Mufeums, the outer 

 Coat is taken off, which occafions their 

 having that fplendid Appearance ; fome 

 fuch are to be feen in this Colleclion, and 

 others in their natural State. The flat 

 Tellina with white Fafcias, the broad flat 

 Tellina from the Wefi Indies ^ the narrow 

 Tellina, and others, are worthy to be pre- 

 ferved. 



MufctiU^ Mufcles of the fhialler Sizes,' \ 

 Some of the Specimens have Pearls fixed 

 to the Infide of the Shell, occafioned by its 

 having been by fome Means or other ac- . 

 cidentally injured. 



We have now done with the Tables of 

 Shells ; if the Remarks that are made on. 

 them are thought too concife, it muft be 

 confidered that they could not be treated 

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