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any distance, and exhibited to those who have no 
opportunity to examine them alive, 
u The greatest variety of corallines,” says this 
gentleman, u are to be found on what are generally 
called rock oysters, or upon those beds of oysters 
that have been for some time disused or neglected. 
Upon such I have seen them grow as it were in 
little groves. As soon as the fishermen take these 
oysters out of the sea, let them immediately put 
them into buckets of sea-water ; for the animals are 
of so tender a nature that the air soon shrivels 
them up. As soon as they can conveniently, let 
them be brought on shore, and stripped of the 
shells with a pair of pincers, taking hold of them 
near where they adhere to the shells ; then put 
them gently into white earthen plates full of clear 
sea-water; and in about an hour, or perhaps less, 
they will begin to recover from this rough treat- 
ment ; and many of the animals will begin to ex- 
tend themselves ; this you may observe by a mag- 
nifying glass of about two inches’ focus. Those 
that you perceive extended and alive, may be sud- 
denly taken out with the pincers, and instantly ini’ 
mersed in any kind of spirits, which you may have 
by you in an open vessel for that purpose. This 
will fix the animals in such a manner, that when 
they are put into wide-mouthed, strong glass bot- 
tles full of the same spirits, and well corked, many 
varieties may be sent together to a great distance, 
without prejudice to the figure of the animals, as I 
have experienced. 
