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stream pours in, millions of the Cerithiwn mam- 

 millatum may be seen crowded together, along 

 with some of the more minute species of Rissoa. 

 Mactra stultorum, Kettia corbuloides, Lucina pecten, 

 Venerupis decussata, Donaoc trunculus, Cardium 

 edule, Emargifiula huzardi, Truncatella, Cerithiwn 

 fuscatum, Nassa neritea, and gibbosulum, and Auri- 

 cula myosotis complete the lists of the most 

 constant molluscan inhabitants of the coast- line 

 and the sea to a depth of seven or eight feet 

 on the Lycian shores. To these we may add 

 the pelagic Iantliina nitens, which is often thrown 

 up by the waves on the sandy beach at the 

 mouth of the Xanthus. 



When by means of the dredge we explored 

 the deeper parts of the sea near the coast, we found 

 new assemblages of mollusks. Between twelve 

 feet and twenty fathoms, a space in which sea- 

 weeds abound, live numbers of species of Pecten, 

 Modiola, Tellina, Nucula, Lucina, Venus, Car- 

 dium, Trochus, Rissoa, and Pleurotoma, many 

 of them not found above or below that region. 

 Also forms of Natica, Dentalium, Phasianella, 

 Nassa and Mitra, many of them presenting the 

 most beautiful colouring, both of shell and 

 animal. Between two and ten fathoms the 



