Of Animal Bodies petrify d. Part III. 
A Broad one, of a Limy fubftance, and fill'd with a 
flaky and glittering Spar. 
The HIGH-WAVED CONCHITES 5 that is, where 
the middle of one Valve making a high and broad ridge, the 
other falls into it. Tis of a white Limy fubftance. 
ANOTHER of the fame, but fhining and pellucid like a 
Spar. Difloluble with Acids. I meet not with any fhell of 
this form. 
A little BIVALVOUS MARCASITE. Conchites Mar- 
chafita. 
The MUSCLE-STONE. Mufculites. This is black and 
of an oblong Figure. 
A Second, Idler and rounder. 
Another of the fame, more Concave. 
A Third, broader, and more expanded. 
A fort of MUSCULITES fill'd with Earth like Tobacco- 
Pipe Clay or Marie. Found amongft the earth of a Hill 
that was overturn d at Kenebank, in New England. 
The fquare MUSCULITES. Mufc. quadi Hater us. I 
have not yet met with any fhell of anfwerable ftiape. 'Tis, 
as it were, bivalvous : and each Valve, hath two fides. Of 
the four, two are broader, and a little Convex, efpecially 
towards the Bafe, at the other end fomewhat {harp : with 
oblique furrows, from the firft to the Iaft growing (horter. 
The other two, floated and plain, joyned with the former 
at obtufe Angles. Of a limy fubftance diifoluble with 
Acids. 
The TOOTHLESS MUSCULE. Found , of feveral 
fizes, beded in a lump oilrifh Slate : yet not petrify 'd,but a 
perfect fhell. It is of a rare kind, no where figured or men- 
tion'd, diat I find, nor have I met with it elfewhere. The 
biggeft of them two inches long, and * over. That end near 
thcBafe, as it were pinched up, almoft into the form of a 
Childs fore-Tooth. On the outfide of the Bafe, ftands a 
plated piece, contiguous therewith at both ends, but in 
the middle, joyned to it by the intervention of other very 
(mall tranfverfe Plates, like the Wards of a Lock : fupply- 
ingthe ufe of the Teeth in other Mufcles, which are here 
wanting 5 from whence I have nana d it. The outfide, is 
adorn d with circinated Lines,and in fome fort alfo radiated 
with very final! Tuberculi, efpecially at the narrow end 
The 
