A, B, C, D, are different views of a very curious mu/klc, dragged up about three 
leagues from this coaft. It is a bivalve, in form very limilar to our common mufkle; 
but is remarkable for the rows of prickles down its fides. Thefe fpines are placed 
in very regular order, and three rows are commonly on each fhell. This fpecies 
feems not.as yet to have fallen under the obfervation of our Naturalifls. Mr. Pen- 
nant certainly had not been acquainted with it, as be takes no notice of fuch an one 
in the British Zoology. 
The ocean continues to us an inexhauftible fource whence to improve our know- 
ledge, and to enrich our cabinets. It affords wonderful difplays of His incompre- 
henfible fkill, who, with the fame all-pervading' eye, beholds the movements of the 
infeX and the rolling of the fpheres. 
The contemplation of thefe wonderful orders of life, while they kindle in the 
Toul the molt delicate Tenfations, cannot fail to raife our thoughts in admiration of 
that Univerfal Operator who formed all things. His diffufive energy animates the 
whole creation. The certainty of His omnipotence, and the fenfe of his continual 
prefence, are, to a pious mind, the moft cheering reflexions in life. One who 
feels thefe impreffions, fees HIM in every thing, and cannot admire the fmalleft of 
his works without thinking of Him. 
The bleffed idea of the Supreme PerfeXion, which is their high origin, devolves 
on them thofe divine embellifhments which enchant our fouls, and render our adl 
miration a myfterious homage paid to thp fplendour and benignity of a Providence 
whofe energies are infinite anil eterjnal. 
