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the Shels being wafted, a ftony fubftance 
is come into the place therex)f. 
My defign of being fliort here, will 
not allow me to make a Defeription of 
all thole particulars, which I have found 
obfervable in every fort of Shels digg’d 
out of the Earth; wherefore,leaving o- 
ther things, I lhall only relate here what 
follows; 
1. That there was found a Pearl-bear¬ 
ing fhell in Tofeany^ a Pearl yet fti^king 
to the Shell. 
2. A piece of the greater. Sea-nacre, 
(pima marina in which, the. lil:k like 
fubftance within the Shell being confu- 
med, the colour of that fubftance did 
remain in that Earthy matterswhich.had 
fill’d the Shell. 
5 ?- Like wife Ibme Shels of Oyftcrs of 
a ftrange bignels, wherein are found ma¬ 
ny oblong cavities fuppos’d to be eaten, 
out by Worms, altogether like thofe, 
which in the C/incDnitan^ Neapolitan and 
Sicilian Stone are inhabited by a. kind of 
Snail; which hollownelfes of Stones if 
they be not made oat of dirt by fome In- 
feds making their nefts, Cwhich I fcai^e 
believe, feeing that the very fubftance of 
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