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moft, either by the Variety and Luftrc of their fine 
Colours, or by their Size, or by their Angular and 
odd Form, or by the Ufe one knows to make of 
of them 5 yet you ought not to n eg left to collect 
and fend fuch as do not offer fo remarkable Singu- 
larities, fuch as even are moft: common. There are 
among the latter fome, which have wherewithal to 
latisfy an Obferver, who looks upon them with 
other Eyes than thofe wherewith they had been re- 
garded before, and with other Views. 
VII. A beautiful Nautilites, fhewn to the 
Royal Society hy the Rev. Charles Lyttle- 
ton LL.D. F. R.S> and Archdeacon of 
Exeter. 
Shewn May s .npHI S curious Foffil feems to be com- 
*74 8 - . pofed of a ftony Matter like Mar- 
ble which has penetrated the Cells of the Nduti- 
lus while in its natural State. The Diaphragms or 
Partitions remain ftill diftindft and vifible. The dif- 
ferent Colour of the ftony Matter in fome Cells of 
a dark-brown or Hair-Colour, in others of a light- 
brown or Afh-Colour, with the natural Polifh of 
the Outftde, gives it a beautiful Appearance; as it 
is reprefented in the annexed Print (See Tab. Fig. 
2.) where it is drawn of its natural Size in three 
different Views. 
A flaews the Side View of it. 
B the fore Part. 
C the back Part. 
It 
