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~ Hornbeam. 
‘Natural. Hiftory of— 
they are capable of Boras for themfelves, make their Re- 
- treat into the Sea. 
‘The Valve that covers oe Deer during iat ‘minute 
States is a moft curious: Sonunwneen to preferve the tender 
Animals from the Sea- Water, till ee) are able to venture 
into it. : 
During Heh @otancmene they are covered with a Slime 
like the White of an Ege; which, no doubt, pone: and 
promotes the Growth of the young Animals, 
If we attentively’ confider this String of Ovaries, we . thal 
be apt to conclude, that both they, as well as the Animals, 
erew after they were depofited by the Parent Whelk ; for 
they appear by much too large for even the largeft oF this 
Tribe ever to have contained. At firft Sight, they have the 
_ Appearance of fomething belonging to the vegetable Tribe, ~ 
and are not unlike the Strings of Seed-Veflels of the EOP | 
Lo 
Fig. a, Plate XXXHL reprefents one of thefe Strings of . 
Matrices of the Vi irginia Whelk of a middling Size. "This 
appears to have been faftened to fome Rock, or other {olid 
Body, by the upper Part of the Ligament: Here we obferve - 
the Ovaries begin fmall; as you trace them on to the Mid- 
dle, they grow larger: “Afterwards they fall off in Size, till, 
at the lower End, they fearce have the Appearance’ of Ova- 
ries, but finifh in imperfect Figures, 
Fig. a 1, fhews the young Shells lying in one af the Oe 
ries, in their natural Size; in the front 2: of which, Fig. a 2. 
is the {mall Valve elfen 
Fig. 4, is a {mall Whelk-thell,. or Buccinum ampellatum of 3 
> Dir Liflers brought from Virginia. 
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