The Natural Hiflory Part L 



fence of rights than the reft 5 and it 

 being impoilible to imagine that all 

 could be in the right ; lome Learned 

 Men began to fufpeO: that none of 

 them \\ ere fo. 



Tiiefe tliereupoo.^ laid out on all 

 hands for foroe new Expedient to folve 

 and pill. an end to the perplexity 5 and 

 'twas 'this laft Effort that, brought 

 forth the Opinion^ that thele Bodies 

 are not what they feem to be ; that 

 they are 00 Shells, but meer Sportings 

 of adive Nature in this fiibterraneous 

 Kingdom 5 and only Semblances or 

 Imitations of SheUs^ they imagining 

 that this fliortoed the Difficulty, be- 

 caufe it fpared them, the trouble of ac- 

 counting for their Conveyance from 

 Sea; which was what had fo feverely 

 exercifed all the former 3 though in 

 reality, this only heightened and en- 

 hanfed it, and renderM it ftill more 

 intricate ; as will appear more at large 

 when I riiali have publifhed the preli* 

 minary DilTertation, v/hereof I have al- 

 ready given fbme Account above. And 

 this was the moft received and preva- 

 lent Opinion when I firft brought my 

 Colleclioo of theie Things up to La^^ 

 don. 



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