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Of Animal Bodies petrify’d. Part III. 
A Broad one, of a Limy fubftance, and fill’d with a 
flaky and glittering Spar. 
The HIGH-WAVED CONCHITES 3 that is, where 
the middle of one Valve making a high and broad ridge, the 
other falls into it. ’Tis of a white Limy fubftance. 
ANOTHER of the fame, but fhining and pellucid like a 
Spar. Dilfoluble with Adds. I meet not with any fhell of 
this form. 
A little BIVALVOUS MARCASITE. Conchites Mar¬ 
ch a [it a. 
The MUSCLE-STONE. Mufculites. This is black and 
of an oblong Figure. 
A Second, letter and rounder. 
Another of the fame, more Concave. 
A Third, broader, and more expanded. 
A fort of MUSCULITES fill’d with Earth like Tobacco- 
Pipe Clay or Marie. Found amongft the earth of a Hill 
that was overturn’d at Kenebank. in New England. 
The fquare MUSCULITES. Mufc. quadrilaterals. I 
have not yet met with any fhell of anfwerable fhape. ’Tis, 
as it were, bivalvous: and each Valve, hath two fides. Of 
the four, two are broader, and a little Convex, efpecially 
towards the Safe, at the other end fomewhat fharp: with 
oblique furrows, from the firft to the Iaft growing fhorter. 
The other two, ftriated and plain, joyned with the former 
at obtufe Angles. Of a limy fubftance dilfoluble with 
Acids. 
The TOOTHLESS MUSCULE. Found, of feveral 
fizes, beded in a lump of Irijh Slate: yet not petnfy’d,but a 
perfect fhell. It is of a rare kind, no where figured or men¬ 
tion’d, that I find, nor have I met with it elfewhere. The 
biggeft of them two inches long, and * over. That end near 
the Bafe, as it were pinched up, almoftinto the form of a 
Childs fore-Tooth. On the outfide of the Bafe , Hands a 
plated piece, contiguous therewith at both ends, but in 
the middle, joyned to it by the intervention of other very 
fmall tranfverfe Plates, like the Wards of a Lock : fupply- 
mg the ufe of the Teeth in other Mufcles , which are here 
wanting; from whence I have nam’d it. The outfide, is 
adorn d with circinated Lines,and in fome fort alfo radiated 
with very fmall Tuberculi, efpecially at the narrow end. 
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