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receive the other end of the knifed 5 and the folid fquare part 
thereof, is to be faftn'd in the groove that is under it^ 
by two Iron-plates «t *, « 5, under w^hich it niufl: run in the faid 
groove,foas that it may be flipp'd out from under it, and laid 
by, when the Engin is not ufed ; at which timealfo the piece at 
the other end may be unfcrew'd and laid up. 
The two long fquares upon one end of the Block, in Fig. 
viz, 5. 6.7. 8. are two Iron-plates to be faftn'd , where the 
knife,moving in a fit cavity, is to cut the brulfed ftufFbetween 
th^m. And of thefe plates that,which lyes next theend,is to be 
laid a little lower, the block being there pared accordingly, 
that fo the ftufrmay fall off from the end oftheEngin the quick- 
er,as your left hand furnifhes the knife with the bruifed mate- 
rials, whilft the right hand is cutting them. 
Let the hollow place, where the knife cuts, be, as near as 
may be,fo big only,that the knife ^nay eafily fall and rife ;and 
let the Block behollow'd under the cutting ho]e,and floped of? 
at that end,for the fluff to fall off as the knife cuts ir» 
jin Extra^of a Letter ofMrMaxtm Lifter concerning the firfi 
fart of his T2kAt'^ of "SmiXz-, together voith fomeQu2eYe*s rela- 
ting to thofe Infech^ and the Tables themfelves fenttothe 
Publtjher from York March 12. 16 j 3. 
I Herewith fend you the Jirjl part of our Tables of Snails^^and 
fome upon that fubjeft ; alfothe lively figure of 
each Shell for illuftration,done by Mr. Lodge. I referve by me 
the Sea-fieUszTid Rock- Jiones. That parcj fend you at prefent, 
beingat aftand with me, thofe other increafe upon my hands 
daily ; which though that be not a fign of perfeftionCfor there 
is undoubted v^^ork for many ages,) yet it is of good advance- 
ment and progrefs ; this other of the copioufnefs of the fubjefl. 
Ag3in,in that part of the Tables,you have from me, Authors are 
very little concern'd; inthe othcrof 5^^-/&^i/j and Stone4ike 
Shells there are many authors, which are to beconfultedand 
taken in,if poflibly we can underftand them treating of the fame 
fpecies. As for Rock-{bells in particular, they come in to me in 
greater numbers,than I could ever have imagined. And I can af- 
fure 
