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faces, and an Egg on which is neatly and whimfi- 
cally rivetted a finall Horfe Shoe. Befides thefe 
Eggs of Birds, are fome Specimens of thofcof Cro¬ 
codiles, Guanas, Lizards, Turtles* and Tortoifes. 
Stella Marina , Star Fifh. Thofe of the fmaller 
Kind are called on our Coafls* where they abound, 
Five Fingers. Some of the Specimens are very 
large, the Number of their Points or Rays being 
various. The reticulated Star Fifh, called Medu- 
fa's Head , is very curious j the Fifh, when alive and 
in its natural Element, lpreads abroad a great Num¬ 
ber of Fibres, which extend to a large Compafs, 
and in Figure bear no diftant Refemblance to a 
Net, being perhaps intended for the fame Ufe, to 
catch its Prew 
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Cruftacea. Under this Title are depofited a Va¬ 
riety of Crabs of different Kinds, Colours, and 
Countries 5 fome Lobfters, Sea Loeufts, Prawns, 
Shrimps, the black Crab from Jamaica , and others 
from the Ea§l Indies finely variegated in Colour; 
but what really moft demands Regard, is an extra¬ 
ordinary large Claw of a Lobfter. 
Tttftacea, A Number of large Sea Shells, as Hel¬ 
mets, Buccina, £sV. In the upper Part of this Re- 
pofitory is a Log of Wood with a great Number 
of Barnacles flicking to it. It was the Opinion of 
fome of our old Naturalifts, they were produced on 
a Tree that grows on the Sea Shore in the North 
of Scotland-, that after a certain Time the Shell 
opened and dropped its Contents into the Sea, and 
that it there became a Bird called the Barnacle, or 
Solan Goofe, or, as they fometimes named it, the 
Vegetable Goofe : But the Error of their Conjec¬ 
tures has long been difcovered; the Barnacle is 
found to be a Shell Filh, which might fix itfelf to 
thofe Branches of Trees that chanced to be under 
F 2 Water; 
