ART 
I. 
Of Shells. 
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toward the top or Navle of the lhell. This fort I meet with 
no where. Without of an afh-colour, rough with wrinkles 
in rays, and waved Circles. Within fmooth, the Margin 
white, about ? of an inch broad; the Seat of the Animal 
yellow fpreadout both ways. 
The Animal it felf is headed and horned like a Snail. 
See Bellonim s Defcription. Our Fijhermen ufe the ordinary 
kinds to bait with, who find them every where in our Seas 
on the Rocks near the Jhore. ( a ) If they feel themfelves 
touched, they flick fo very fail to the Rock, that they can Cochi. 
hardly be loofened thence without a Knife, (b) VVormi " 
CHAP. II. 
Of SHELLS Double and Multiple. 
TVJOte, That when I fpeak of the Bafe , I mean, that: 
part on which the Teeth, Joynts or Hinges Hand. 
When of the Navle , the peeked end of the fhell, which 
for the moil part Hands behind the Bafe as alfo that part 
which anfwers to it, where it doth not. When of the fides, 
not the Concave and Convex, but the edges produced from 
the Navle on the right and left. 
The SEA-WING. Finna. Each Valve is very like in fhape 
to the Wing of a large Fowl, from whence I name it. 
Where broadefl, near I of a yard over. In length two 
feet: being the largeft and longefl of all the fhells that I 
know. The two Valves are naturally ty’d together with a 
fort of Tow ; whereby they are alfo faftened to forne Stone 
or other Body under Water. The Animal is very good 
meat. 
The SEA-OYSTER j in diflindtion from the common, 
which may be called the Shore-Oyfier. Oftrea Pelagia. Here 
are feveral of this fort, all of them but frnall. Rondeletius 
faith, that in India they are fometimes a foot long. 
The CHESTNETE-QYSTER. I meet with it no where 
deferibed or figur’d. It is near two inches and I long, of an 
Oval Figure, and fomewhat writhen. The outfide is of a 
dark-brown, very uneven with large Oval Furrows. The 
infide 
