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therefore that abfeonds in Earth or Stones might 
be called fo too: Hence I think, that ?«*** is too 
vague and infignificant a Name for any particular 
Animal, and that fome other, which has a nearer 
Relation to its generical Charader ought to be given 
to it. 
If Aldro'vandus had fecn thofe, which we as er-. 
roneoufly call Pholades 0 inclofcd in their Cells, he 
would, no doubt, have call’d them by the fame 
Name, and for the fame Rcafon, but I am inclined 
to think he never faw the intire Fifh, but only the 
Shgll ; becaufe he gives a very impeded Delcription of 
it, among -feveral others which he has Figures of 
alfo, and which he calls Concha lonva Authoris 
alia, which follow an Account and Figure of the 
Concha longa of R liny. 
Dr. Lifter and Rumphius alfo have Figures of 
this Mediterranean Fifh-, and, after that Author, call 
it Rholas : But fince this Term barely denotes the 
Place of its Refidence, let us endeavour to give it 
a proper Name, which may be done by confidering 
its Similarity with fome Genus already known. 
The above-mention’d Gentleman fays, the Stones 
are from half a hundred to four or five hundred- 
weight each, lying at all Depths to twenty Feet under 
Water > full of Cells, each containing a (Ingle Fifh, 
call’d by the Inhabitants the Dottle Fifh; which 
Name he judicioufly fuppofes to be a Corruption 
of the Word DaPtylus from their Form. He alfo 
la^s, the Fifh is of the fame Nature with the com- 
mon Mufcle, but much more delicious, and that 
eating them is never attended, with thofe poifonous 
Symptoms, that have been often thought to be 
caus’d by eating Mufcles. 
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