Par t I. Of Shells. 
in the Dog-days, after long Southern Winds, caft on the 
ihore. 
The CORALLINE-SCALLOP both waved and wrink- 
led 3 the Wrinkles and Waves ftanding not acrofs, but' the 
fame way. 
The long GAPING COCKLE. Chama. 'Tis thiner 
and more eafily broken than mod other (hells. The Valves 
are feldom or never clofe fhut. The fides are produced 
from the Bafe by fimilar lines, as in the Coclje, and the 
figure of the fhell oblong : from whence I have taken leave 
for its Name. Whether the Anatomy of the Animal would 
fugged a better, I know not. This here is about an inch 
and ^ long $ 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 bony Epiphyfis, 
about * of an inch long, thin, (harp and flexible : where- 
upon feme of the mufcular parts or the Animal feem to 
be fattened, for the retraining the opening of the fhell from 
any inconvenient degree. 
The BLACK GAPING COCKLE. This is fomewhat 
leffer than the former, and of a rounder Figure, radiated, 
and the edges wav'd. As thin as the former, and hath the 
like Epiphyses. 
This fort , when the South-Wind blows , rife up to 
the top of the Water ", and fetting their two fhells wide 
open 5 with the one under them, as a Boat 5 and the other, 
on one fide as a Sail, they fcoure along, (a) U) Beiion. 
The Broath of this Shell-Fijh is affirmed by Diofcorides 
to be both Laxative and Diuretic^. They have a kind of 
biting taft, like Pepper 5 and are therefore called, by the 
French, Des Flammes : and the Italians, for the fame rea- 
fon, call them 3 Peverazas. (b) (b)Mmd 
The SHEATH-FISH 3 commonly fo called from its 
fimilitude to the Iheath of a Knife. Sole?i. Vnguis. As the 
Sea-Wing is the longer!, fo this is the mod expanded of 
* all Shells 5 though ufually call'd 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 dire&ly oppofite $ 
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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