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Fossil Shells ib

UNIVALVES.

The Common Snail 18

Fresh-water Shells 23

The Whelk 26

Rock Shells 27

Periwinkle 29

Trochus, or Top-Shell 31

Cones, Volutes, Mitres, and Olives 35

Cowries 38

BIVALVES.

The Oyster 41

Pearls 49

The Mussel and the Cockle 51

Scallop Shells 57

Limpits 59

Bock-borers 61

MULTIVALVES.

The Chitons 63

Barnacles 64

Cuttle Fish 67

Nautilus and Ammonite 71

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