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7kh h AifihgHtJht from the lajl in being lefs^ having f/ndt' 
Ver Stf iss and fmooth (ntuch rejimhling our common CocHe> 
but particularly in being Ear'no[edy\z. incline 
ingmere tmards one end of the hinge.whereas the lajiwas in the 
middle. 1 take the native colour of this Shell io he Chejinut^ 
but the dead ones change black or vphite^ as they are either 
dyd in the Mud, or blancht by the Sm on the Shore. 
7. Chama CAROL, levis & laevis. 
All of thk ki^d were dead Shells^ fo that I can fay nothing 
of their Colour 5 a valve of the largejl, iho 2 inches and ^ long 
and about an inch and \ broad^ and i inch high^ weighed but 
•gj 4nd I and 6 grains^ i. e. in all 8i grains, yet fome of the 
fame dimenfions weighed a few grains heavier. 
8. Chama CAROL, parva, fafcijs fere Isevibus. 
This Shell refembles our Nut-Mufcle. Muf nofl, 831. but 
is thicker and one end pointed ^ we have an Englilh Sea Shell 
like thisy which I may in a Uttle time have an occafion to fpedk 
Chama CAMPEACHEANA alba, fafciata tenuis. 
Pe&unculus albus tenuis rhomboides, rarioribus fafcijs 
exafperatus Liji. H. C. L. 3. Tab. 308. Fig. 141. The 
white Campeachy Spoon-Mufcle. 
This Shell is Jo thin and brittle, it rarely comes t9 us 
whole. The curious Dr Lifter gave the firft of thefe, U Au- 
guft 19, 1697. and my ki^^ Friend MrFifield, Surgeon, 
has fnce brought it me from the Ifland of Trifs, and Madam 
Williams has now fent nte one of the largejl and faireji I have 
yet feen, the Valve 3 inches long, 2 h -broad and I deep, yet 
•xpeighed not o^'yand 9y. 
10. BARBADENSiS exiguus, cardine ferrato. 
Mufculus parvus, fubluteus, anguftus, leviter ftriatus 
Lift. H. C. L. g. Tab. 365. Fig. 205. The fmall Barbadoes 
Mufcle. This is a deep, thin^ light, fmall, finely Jiraited 
SheB^ a pair of the largejl was but an inch long, J inch broad, 
and both valves not i inch deep, weighed fcarce 6 grains 3 by 
