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zing •, it is of the Crab Kind, but not 

 fatisficd with the cruftaceous Covcrinor 

 Nature has given it, it feizes the firll: 

 unoccupied Shell it meets with, proper 

 for its Purpofe, (fome have faid that it 

 will even drive the Fifh out of it) and 

 fixing itfelf firmly in it, drags it about as 

 long as it lives, unlefs it fliould find an- 

 other more to its Mind. 



We find in this Room two Specimens 

 of Fern of a very particular Kind j it is 

 produced in the Idand of St. Helena, and 

 in fome Parts of Soulh America \ it grows 

 very frequently to the Size of tolerable 

 large Timber, and is fometimes applied 

 to the Ufes for which Timber is va- 

 luable. 



Over the Repofitories are difpofed in 

 Order, a great Number of Sea Produc- 

 tions, of the Coral Kind, as Sea Fans, Sea 

 Willows, ^c. and fome large Shells, as 

 Conchs, Buccina, ^V. together with a 

 few of that Kind called Pinna Marina, 

 which are a very large Species of Mufcle, 



found 



