Part I. Of Shells. 
in the Dog-day after long Southern Winds, caff on the 
ihorc. 
The CORALLINE-SCALLOP both waved and wrink- 
led 3 the Wrinkles and Waves {landing not acrofs, but the 
fame way. 
The long GAPING COCKLE. Chama. *fis thine* 
and more eafily broken than mod other fhells. The Valves 
are feldom or never clofe fhut. The fides are produced 
§ fc from the Bafe by iimilar lines, asm the Cockle, and the 
figure of the lhcll oblong : from whence I have taken leave 
for its Name. Whether the Anatomy of the Animal would 
fuggeft a better, I know not. This here is about an inch 
and I long 3 and of an afh-colour. 
Of this, and probably all the other Species? it is omitted 
by thofe that defcribe them, that from each of the two 
Joynts at the Bafe, is produced a kind of bonj Epipbyfes, 
about * of an inch long, thin, (harp and flexible : where- 
upon feme of the mufcular parts of the Animal feem to 
be fattened, for the retraining the opening of the fuell from 
any inconvenient degree. 
The BLACK GAPING COCKLE. This is fomcwhat 
leffer than the former, and of a rounder Figure, radiated, 
and the edges wav'd. As thin as the former, and hath the 
like Epipbyfes. 
This fort , when the South-Wind blows , rife up to 
the top of the Water , and fetting their two fhells wide 
open 3 with the one under them, as a Boat 5 and the other, 
on one fide as a Sail, they fcoure along, (a) (*) Bdlon - 
The Broath of this Shell-Fijh is affirmed by Diof cor ides 15. c^!^' 
to be both Laxative and Diuretic 4 They have a kind of 
biting taft, like Peppery and are therefore called, by the 
French^ Des Flammes : and the Italians, for the fame rea- 
ibn, call them, Peverazas. (b) (£)Belloniu* 
The SHEATH-FISH 3 commonly fo called from its 
fimilitude to the fheath of a Knife. Solen. Vmnm. As the 
Sea-Wing is the longeft, fo this is the moil expanded of 
all Shells 3 though ufually calPd A long Shell, but impro- 
perly. For it may be noted, that the length of a ihell 
is properly from the Navle to the edge directly oppoiite 3 
the breadth, between the two fides thence produced, which 
in this Shell are the two ends : as if you fhould crufh 
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