large Oyfters to be dropp’d into the Channel, juft 
under his Land ; from the Spat or Seed of which, 
it is mod probable, the Flux and Reflux of Tides 
difperfing it, all the Bottom at length, where fmali 
Stones and a large Cultch received the Sperm, be- 
came cover’d with Oyfters. And what favours this 
Conjecture, that they are a Brood of Oyfters begun 
at that Time, is, that at the firft finding, they ap- 
peared young and fmali, but have fince yearly increafed 
in Bulk and Plenty, though prodigious Quantities have 
been taken up of them. 
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