were five tails of ferfents^ waved and attenuated toward the 
upper part of the ftones. They tell us alfo a ftory of its being 
engendered from the farwation and fliim of fnakes^ and cafl: into 
the Air by the force of tlit'n fibilations^ where if taken, has ef- 
feds as wonderful as its generation, and therefore of great efteem 
amongftthe French Vruids. But I care not to fpend niy time in 
Romance^ and therefore proceed 
84. To another Ecbinites, refembling the inner (liell of the 
Echinus ovarium or Efcukntips^ fo called from a fort of quinque- 
partite or ftellated eggs^ that this kind of Echini^ has within it 
good to eat. Their outermoft coat is full of J/jarp frkk/es^ upon 
which account they are fomtimes called Chafta'igms de Mer^ or 
fea Chefnuts^ becaufe of their likenefs to rough prickles that 
encompafs Chefnuts whil'ft they are on the Tree ; for which ve- 
ry reafon they are alfo called Heriffons de Mer^ fea Hedg-hogs^ and 
Cardui Marini^ fea Thiftles : which rough coat of theirs, when 
the Fifti is dead, coming off from them, they then difcover 
their inward fhell of that curiom worksmnjlfip^ that is lively repre- 
fented by our (ione^ Fig. 5. made up of fo many cornpartements 
and eminencies^ and fo regularly difpofed, that, fays Monfieur de 
Rochefort ^ (who calls them alfo Pommes de Mer^ or fea Apples^ 
the moft ingenious £7>^Z'm(^erer would be much troubled to imi- 
tate them. This Echinites ovarium was found in the Parifti of 
Tejnton^ and fent me by my worthy and ingenious Friend Mr. 
Robert Veyfey^ to whom alfo I am beholding for many other mat- 
ters mentioned in this Effay. 
85. From Teynton alfo was fent me another of this kind, 
but much fmaller, not exceeding the Rouncival pea^ or French 
Halflet in higut^s ; and yet with lines of compartement^ and p- 
ther eminencies ?iS large as the former, but much fewer in num- 
ber: to which, whether there beany ^;2i;;z^/ in Nature whofe 
fhell will exadlly, or for the moft part correfpond, 1 much que- 
ftion ; wherefore that it may be examined both at home and a~ 
broad, I have caufed it to be engraven. Fig. 6. 
86. To which add ^fourth fort with its prickles ftili on, found 
plentifully in the Qnarries near Shotover-hilf very like to the fifth 
fort of Echinus of Ariflotle^ as depicted hy Ron dektiu6^^ whofe 
inward fiell it feems is very fmall, hutiisprickjes long and ftub- 
2 Hiftoryof che lUesAjitilks, or CariUy Iflands, chup. 19. art. 13. ^ De T?'^c''bui,lib. 18. cap 33. 
O 2 born, 
