Consequents of the Deluge.

Waller at Keinfiam. To which I an-?^r, That there may be Shell-fish in our^ eas > that do not at alf, or very seldom ap-greater than we are aware of. I myL1 «> in company with Mr. Willughby, in theEights between the Isle and Calf of Man,°°h up among the tall Fuel growing thick^ponthe Roeks there, tw o or three ot those*3rge Echini Marini or Sea-prchins,as big as* Man's two fists, th<? (hells whereof we ne-^ er found cast up upon the shores of England,hor ever heard that any Man else did. Sa^t I question not but there are lodged a*Ihong the Rocks, and in the deeper places°f the Sea, remote from the shores, manydifferent forts of Shell-silh, and excelling inMagnitude those that are commonly foundknown. And like enough it is, that as?the Flood there were many places de-ert cd, and thrown up by the Sea, and be-c °ttie dVy hand, which had been Sea before;'J/fich must needs be replete with these Bo-As for the Nautili, they are muchifferent from these Cornua Ammonis. ForJ-he Nautili , at least all the Species of themknown to us, are (as Y)t.Plot well observes)Extravagantly broad at the mouth, and have^ more than two other small turns at the^°st» whereas the turns of the Ophiomr-r J *te$ are proportionable one to another j. L 2 and

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