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and in number many times four or five, andfometimes fix, if we may believe Aldrovand-And thcie are Nautili lapidei , which do a snearly resemble the Nautilus (hells as anyother Cochlites do their respective Proto-types, as Mr. Lloyd allures me he had ob-served many in Museums. And the Learnedand Ingenious Mr. Richard Waller ‘then Se-cretary to the Royal Society y in a Letter tome dated Febr. 4 . - 87. write$,That he hadbeen lately at Keinjbam \x\ Somersetjhire, ‘andmaking a search after the Cornua AmmontSifound one of the true Nautilus shape, covet-ed in some places with a shelly Incrustationwith the Diaphragms to be seen to the Cen-ter of the Volutœ, and in each Diaphragm,thehole by which they communicate-one withanother, by a string or gut in the Fish*-This was of a very hard & toneand largesize, weighing at least twenty eight pound,though some part was broken off! AnotherArgument that they have no relation to thecommon Nautili, is, that they break intopieces somewhat resembling Vertebrcs , as 1was first advised by the fore- remembred Mr*Lloyd , and have since noted my (elf I a lidreceived from that very Ingenious and In-quisitive Gentleman, lnippyi in making na-tural Discoveries, Mr . William Cole of -Bet'/?<>/,such an account of a sort or two- of theft