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liar to Java, as a Spanish lady informed a friend of 
mine that, if seed-pearls were shut up in cotton-wool, 
they would increase either in size or in number I The 
experience of our jewellers is that the effect of cotton- 
wool on pearls is to injure their colour, and make them 
yellow. 
Shakespeare says : — 
“ Love’s feeling is more soft and sensitive 
Than are the horns of cocJcled snails.” 
Here cockled means either shelled or whorled. 
The Greek means a snail, or a 
shell with a spiral whorl (hence the name of goggle 
for the Buccinum) ; but it is also used sometimes for a 
bivalve shell or cockle.^’ Ko'^kidpiov is a spoon. 
Camden, in his ^ Britannia^ (p. 962), in speaking of 
Ireland, and of the commodities of the British Ocean, 
says : — There are cockles^ also, in great numbers, with 
which they dye a scarlet colour so strong and fair, that 
neither the heat of the sun nor the violence of the rain 
will change it, and the older it is, the better it looks.^^ 
Of course, the purple-fish [Purpura lapillus) is here 
meant. 
Locke also speaks of the oyster or cockle.^^ 
The Latin cochlea is properly a snail j but cochlear 
[cochleare^ or cochlearium) , “ a spoon, or “ spoonful,^^ 
seems to be derived from the form of a bivalve shell, 
rather than of a snail ; it was also a measure for liquids, 
and in medicine it still signifies a spoonful, hence the 
Italian cucchiajo, French cuiller, Cochlearium was also 
used by the Homans for any small shell, as in mediseval 
times. Some authors, indeed, say the spoon was called 
cochlear, not from its shape, but from the pointed end 
