Part!. Of Shells. 
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in the Dog-days, after long Southern Winds, call on the 
lhore. 
The CORALLINE-SCALLOP both waved and wrink¬ 
led; the Wrinkles and Waves Handing not acrofs, but the 
fame way. 
The long GAPING COCKLE. Chama. Tis tinner 
and more cafily broken than mod other Tells. The Valves 
are feldorn or never clofe (hut. The Tides are produced 
from the Bafe by fimilar lines, as in the Cockle, and the 
figure of the fhcll oblong: front whence I have taken leave 
for its Name. Whether the Anatomy of the Animal would 
fuggeft a better, I know not. This here is about an inch 
and I long ; and of an afh-colour. 
Of this, and probably all the other Species, it is omitted 
by thofe that deferibe them, that from each of the two 
Joynts at the Bafe, is produced a kind of bon 1 ? Epiphyfis, 
about * of an inch long, thin, (harp and flexible: where¬ 
upon fome of the mufcular parts of the Animal feem to 
be fattened, for the reftraining the opening of the fhcll from 
any inconvenient degree. 
The BLACK GAPING COCKLE. This is fomewhat 
letter than the former, and of a rounder Figure, radiated, 
and the edges wav'd. As thin as the former, and hath the 
like Epiphyfes. 
This fort, when the South-Wind blows, rife up to 
the top of the Water, and fetting their two fhells wide 
open; with the one under them, as a Boat; and the other, 
on one fide as a Sail, they fcoure along. ( a ) M Beilon. 
The Broath of tins SheU-FiJh is affirmed by Diofcorides 
to be both Laxative and Diureticf. They have a kind of 
biting taft, like Pepper ; and are therefore called, by the 
French, Des Flammes : and the Italians, for the fame rea- 
fon, call them, Peverazas. (b) (^)EellomuS 
1 he SHEATH-FISH; commonly fo called from its 
fimihtude to the fheath of a Knife. Solen. Unguis. As the 
Sea-Wing is the longeft, fo this is the moft expanded of 
all Shells; though ufually call’d A long Shell, but impro¬ 
perly. For it may be noted, that the length of a ihell 
is properly from the Navle to the edge directly oppofite ; 
the breadth, between the two fides thence produced, which 
in this Shell are the two ends: as if you fhould crufh 
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