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Water; and the Solan Goofe is now known to breed 
like other Water Fowls in the Northern Climates. 
It was once thought that Jamaica produced a Tree 
which bore Oyfters, a Miftake of the like kind with 
that already mentioned. We jfhould be flow in 
giving Credit to whatever appears to be out of the 
natural Courfe of Things. 
Under this Title is to be feen, the Soldier, oy 
Hermit Crab, from Jamaica. The Inftindt of this 
little Animal is furprizing •, it is of the Crab kind, 
but net fatisfied with the cruftaceous Covering Na¬ 
ture has given it, it feizes the firft unoccupied Shell 
it meets with, proper for its Purpofe, (fome have 
faid that it will even drive the Fifh out of it) and 
fixing itfelf firmly in it, drags it about as long as 
it lives, unlefs it fliould find another more to its 
Mind. 
There are in this Room two Specimens of Fern 
of a very particular Kind; it is produced in the 
Ifland of St. Helena , and in fome Parts of South 
America ; it grows very frequently to the Size of 
tolerable large Timber, and is fometimes applied 
to the Ufes for which Timber is valuable. 
Over the Repofitories are difpofed in Order, a 
great Number of Sea Productions, of the Coral 
Kind, as Sea Fans, Sea Willows, &c. and fome 
large Shells, as Conchs, Buccina, &c. together 
with a few of that Kind called Pinna Marina , which 
are a very large Species of Mufcle, found only in 
the Sea, chiefly in the Mediterranean. 
There are three fmall Tables which we muft not 
pafs over in Silence. The firft contains fome Shells 
finely polifhed and carved in embodied Work; the 
Figures on them are lively, and they are upon the 
whole remarkably elegant and beautiful, having 
greatly the Appearance of Mother of Pearl. 
Some 
