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hiftory of other animals of this genus, at prefent fo little un- 
derftood, 1 have drawn out a more particular account of it ; 
which, if you think it deferves attention, you may prefent to 
the Royal Society. 
This animal was found on the fouth-eaft coaft of Barbadoes, 
clofe to Charles Fort, about a mile from Bridge Town, in fome 
Ihoal water, feparated from the fea by the Rones and fand 
thrown up by the dreadful hurricane, which happened in the 
year 1780, and did fo much mifehief to the ifland. 
The wind, in the beginning of the ftorm, which was in the 
afternoon, blew very furioully from the north-weft, making a 
prodigious fwell in the fea ; and in the middle of the night 
changing fuddenly to the fouth-eaft, it blew from that quarter 
upon the fea, already agitated, forcing it upon the Ihore with 
fo much violence, that it threw down the rampart of Fort 
Charles, which was oppofed to it, although thirty feet broad, 
by the burfting of one fea. It forced up, at the fame time, im- 
menfe quantities of large coral rocks from the bottom of the 
bay, making a reef along this part of the coaft for the extent 
of feveral miles, at only a few yards diftance from the ftrore. 
The foundings of the harbour were found afterwards to be 
intirely changed, by the quantity of materials removed from 
the bottom in different places. In the reef of coral was found 
an infinite number of large pieces of brain-ftone, containing 
the (hell of this animal ; but the animals had either been 
long dead, or more probably deftroyed by the motion of the 
rocks in the ftorm : fome few of the brain-ftones, however, 
that had been thrown beyond the reef, and lodged in the thoal 
.water, receiving lefs injury, the animals were preferved unhurt. 
The animal, with the fhell, is almoft intirely inclofed in the 
brain-ftone, fo that at the depth in which they generally lie, 
2 they 
