Part I. 
Of Shells, 129 
The OVAL LONG-MOUTH’D SNAILT^bigg^T” 
than a Filbert Kernel. The Lips are parallel. The right 
turned or doubled outward. The left uneven with three 
oblique furrows. The Back fpeckled with white and red. 
The Wbirle hath four Rounds pretty high. 
The PURPLE-WILK with folid Spikes. Purpura acule'vs 
[olidis. This and the other kinds commonly found in the 
Dead-Sea. 
The PURPLE-WILK with long plated Spikes. Purpura 
Aculeis plicat'vs longiffinm. By Ferranto Imperato , called 
Echinata. Olearius gives a good Figure, {a) Fab. Columna Tab> 
the Defcription, with the Title of Purpura muricata jive h& 
Murex Roftratus parvus. I will add my own a little fuller. 
The main Body is not much bigger than a good big 
Nutmeg. But hath a Horn no lefs than two inches and 
I long, near the Mouth * of an inch over, and fharp-pointed. 
Almoft a Pipe, but a little open underneath by the length. 
Along the right Lip and the Turban it felf, in three Rows, 
Hand fevcral long lharp plated or gutter’d Spikes triangu¬ 
larly. But on the Turban they a little anticipate each other. 
As alfo do the Plates of the feveral Rounds. The right Lip 
is in fome fort toothed, the left turned outward. 
The PURPLE with REDOUBLED SPIKES , i. e. with 
the greater doubled Spikes collaterally fubdivided into 
lelfer. Of thefe there are four. Two of them white, 
defcribed by Columna with the Name of Purpura five 
Murex Pelagius marmoreus. Another, afh-colour’d 5 and a 
fourth, brown. 
All Purples have a Canale or Gutter’d Horn long or 
fhort, in which is lodged that part which is called the 
Tongue ; but performs the Lime Office as the Gills in other 
Filhes. ( b) The Animal creeps and directs its own way (b) Fab. 
with its Horns, like a Snail: vet hath it not four, but two Columi1 - 
onl 7: ( c ) . . . . (cjul 
The Purple Tincture it yields, is contained betwixt that Lyfc dc 
part which is called the Papaver and the Neck, (d) It is of ^ cbI \ (}of 
a different degree 3 in fome, more upon the Red, like that Hifl.Anim.' 
of Cocbinele ; in others, more upon the Blew, like that of ,lb ‘ 5>c -* 5 - 
Violets. It was anciently ( preifcd out of the living (e) w Mufs lim 
Animal, and) ufed efpecially for the deying of Silks. But Worm ‘ 
is now grown out of ufe, as is likely ^ from the great 
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