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A Brief System Of Conchology.
A BRIEF SYSTEM OF CONCHOLOGY .
fcONTIN'tlKD FROJf OVK LAST . ' ]
THE ports of Marseilles , Toulon , and Antibes , are full of pinnse marinas , muscles , tellina :, and chamee . The coasts of Bretagne afford great numbers of the conchas anatiferas and poussepieds ; they are found on old rotten boards , on sea substances , and among clusters of sponges . The other ports of France , as Rochelle , Dunkirk , Brest , St . Maloesand othersfurnish oysters excellent for the tablebut of
, , , the common kind , and of no beauty in their shells ; great numbers of muscles are also found there ; and the common tellinse , the onionpeel oysters , thesolens , and cbnchee anatiferas , are also frequent there . At Granville , in Lower Normandy , there are found very beautiful pectens , and some of the cordiform or heart-shells . Our own English coasts are not the least fruitful in shellsthough
, they do not produce such elegantly painted ones as the Indies . About Plymouth are found oysters , muscles , and solens , in great abundance ; and there , and on most of our other shores , are numbers of the atires marina ; and dentalia , with pectens , which are excellent food ; and many elegant species of the chama ; and telliuas are fished up in the sea about Scarborough and other places . Ireland affords us great
numbers of muscles , and some very elegant scallop-shells in great abundance , and the pholades are frequent on most of our shores . We have also great variety of the buccina and cochleae , some volufte ; and , on the Guernsey coast , a peculiarly beautiful snail , called thence the Guernsey snail .
The coasts of Spain and Portugal afford much the same species of shells with the East Indies , but they are of much fainter coloursj and greatly inferior in beauty . There are , according to Tavernier and others , some rivers in Bavaria in which there are found pearls of a fine water . About Cadiz there are found very large pinnte marina ? , and some fine buccina . The isles of Majorca and Minorca afford a great variety of extremely elegant shells . The pinnte marinas are
also very numerous there , and their silk is wrought into gloves , stockings , and other things . The Baltic affords a great many beautiful species , -, but particularly an orange-coloured pecten , or scallopshell , which is not found in any other part of the worid . The fresh water shells are found much more frequently , and in much greater plenty than the sea kinds ; there is scarce a pond , a
ditch , or a river of fresh water in any part of the world in which there are not found vast numbers of these shells with the fish living in them . All these shells are small , and they are of very little beauty , being usually of a plain greyish or brownish colour . Our ditches afford us chama , buccina , neritte , and some patellae ; but the Nile , and some other rivers , furnished the ancients with a species of tellina . which was large and eatable , and so much superior to the common . sea tellina in flavour , that it is commonly known by the name of iel-VOL , ix . »
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
A Brief System Of Conchology.
A BRIEF SYSTEM OF CONCHOLOGY .
fcONTIN'tlKD FROJf OVK LAST . ' ]
THE ports of Marseilles , Toulon , and Antibes , are full of pinnse marinas , muscles , tellina :, and chamee . The coasts of Bretagne afford great numbers of the conchas anatiferas and poussepieds ; they are found on old rotten boards , on sea substances , and among clusters of sponges . The other ports of France , as Rochelle , Dunkirk , Brest , St . Maloesand othersfurnish oysters excellent for the tablebut of
, , , the common kind , and of no beauty in their shells ; great numbers of muscles are also found there ; and the common tellinse , the onionpeel oysters , thesolens , and cbnchee anatiferas , are also frequent there . At Granville , in Lower Normandy , there are found very beautiful pectens , and some of the cordiform or heart-shells . Our own English coasts are not the least fruitful in shellsthough
, they do not produce such elegantly painted ones as the Indies . About Plymouth are found oysters , muscles , and solens , in great abundance ; and there , and on most of our other shores , are numbers of the atires marina ; and dentalia , with pectens , which are excellent food ; and many elegant species of the chama ; and telliuas are fished up in the sea about Scarborough and other places . Ireland affords us great
numbers of muscles , and some very elegant scallop-shells in great abundance , and the pholades are frequent on most of our shores . We have also great variety of the buccina and cochleae , some volufte ; and , on the Guernsey coast , a peculiarly beautiful snail , called thence the Guernsey snail .
The coasts of Spain and Portugal afford much the same species of shells with the East Indies , but they are of much fainter coloursj and greatly inferior in beauty . There are , according to Tavernier and others , some rivers in Bavaria in which there are found pearls of a fine water . About Cadiz there are found very large pinnte marina ? , and some fine buccina . The isles of Majorca and Minorca afford a great variety of extremely elegant shells . The pinnte marinas are
also very numerous there , and their silk is wrought into gloves , stockings , and other things . The Baltic affords a great many beautiful species , -, but particularly an orange-coloured pecten , or scallopshell , which is not found in any other part of the worid . The fresh water shells are found much more frequently , and in much greater plenty than the sea kinds ; there is scarce a pond , a
ditch , or a river of fresh water in any part of the world in which there are not found vast numbers of these shells with the fish living in them . All these shells are small , and they are of very little beauty , being usually of a plain greyish or brownish colour . Our ditches afford us chama , buccina , neritte , and some patellae ; but the Nile , and some other rivers , furnished the ancients with a species of tellina . which was large and eatable , and so much superior to the common . sea tellina in flavour , that it is commonly known by the name of iel-VOL , ix . »