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delicate. It is very probably that which Cette first
described, under the name of alalunga, in his
History of the Fishes of Sardinia, page 191*.
They likewise fish for coral and a variety of shell-
fish. Those most commonly caught are the date-}-,
whose grubs find no difficulty in securing a lodg-
ing in the soft and spongy stone of the shore; the
pinna marina \, of which some attain a very large
size, being more than two feet in length; the
prickly oyster which they catch even within the
harbour; the Noah's ark || ; some species of the
telline and trumpct-fish, &c. &c.: they likewise
sometimes find, though rarely, the nautilus f>ap-
raceus *![.
The strata of calcareous substances of the
islands of Malta and Gozzi, likewise produce
abundantly petrifactions and fossils. It were easy
to form ample collections of these. I have seen
there sea-urchins transformed to spar, very large
vermiculars, oolithes, pisolites, the vertebrae of
fishes of an enormous size, huge glossopetres, and
very beautiful crapaudincs. These two last fossils
* Seamier alalunga pinnis flcctoralibus Imgissimis. Arted. Gen.
Pise. 223..—Scomber hirmis pectoralibus longissimis, jiinnulh cauda
utrinque sejitem.....Scomber alalunga. Liu. Syst. Nat. See also
the Encyclop. method. Hist, des Poissons, art. alalunga.
■j- P/iolas dactylus. Lin. + Pinna nobilis. Lin. § Ostrea
varia. Lin. || Area Ncvf. Lin. Argonauta argo, Lin,
pass
delicate. It is very probably that which Cette first
described, under the name of alalunga, in his
History of the Fishes of Sardinia, page 191*.
They likewise fish for coral and a variety of shell-
fish. Those most commonly caught are the date-}-,
whose grubs find no difficulty in securing a lodg-
ing in the soft and spongy stone of the shore; the
pinna marina \, of which some attain a very large
size, being more than two feet in length; the
prickly oyster which they catch even within the
harbour; the Noah's ark || ; some species of the
telline and trumpct-fish, &c. &c.: they likewise
sometimes find, though rarely, the nautilus f>ap-
raceus *![.
The strata of calcareous substances of the
islands of Malta and Gozzi, likewise produce
abundantly petrifactions and fossils. It were easy
to form ample collections of these. I have seen
there sea-urchins transformed to spar, very large
vermiculars, oolithes, pisolites, the vertebrae of
fishes of an enormous size, huge glossopetres, and
very beautiful crapaudincs. These two last fossils
* Seamier alalunga pinnis flcctoralibus Imgissimis. Arted. Gen.
Pise. 223..—Scomber hirmis pectoralibus longissimis, jiinnulh cauda
utrinque sejitem.....Scomber alalunga. Liu. Syst. Nat. See also
the Encyclop. method. Hist, des Poissons, art. alalunga.
■j- P/iolas dactylus. Lin. + Pinna nobilis. Lin. § Ostrea
varia. Lin. || Area Ncvf. Lin. Argonauta argo, Lin,
pass