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conformable to the furface of the ftratum in 
which they are enclofed. 
The recent fhell has not yet been difcovered, 
one reafon given for their not having been 
found is, that they are bred in the inmofi; and 
deepeft parts of the fea ; where they have their 
abode, and never of themfelves come near the 
fhores, nor are flung out of their native feats, even 
by the violence of tides, or ftorms. Moft of thofe 
fliells which are cafl upon the fliores, by tides, 
or ftorms, are fuch as were bred not far off, 
and among die fhallows and flats. The diftur- 
bances given by tides, or tempefts, never reach 
the inner and deeper recefles of the ocean.* * It 
is therefore lefs to be wondered at, if the fliells 
produced in thofe places, and there refldiiig, 
are feldom found call upon the fhores.t 
F I G. 
from whom they likewife denominated the name of th« 
place. 
A tour thro* the whole IHand of Great Britain. By a 
Gentleman. Vol. II. p. 291. 
* Boyle’s works epitomized. Vol. I. p. 271. octavo, 
1699. 
+ Woodward’s Nat. Hift. of the earth illuflrated and 
inlarged: as alfo defended, p. 12, o£lavo. 1726, 
