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Title: The natural history of Barbados : in ten books
Year: 1750 (1750s)
Authors: Hughes, Griffith, b. 1706 or 7 Mynda, engraver Ehret, Georg Dionysius, 1708-1770, engraver Bickham, George, 1706?-1771, engraver Austen, engraver Erbets, engraver Larkin, Edmund, former owner
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Publisher: London : Printed for the author
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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grows of acylindrical Form, and hollow in the Middle : It is of the Colour of acommon Sponge, and its Parts are as ftiff as if they were compofed ofvery fine Wire. The Soft Sponge. ^ I ^ HIS Clafs cleave to the Rocks, or rather grow from them, as Jews-Ears do from Trees. The Beamed Coral. Madrepora ramojijftfna fufca^ halcyoniis et ojlreis accretis injignis,Boerh. Ind. Plant, p. 5. T^ H E Specimen I faw here has no Oyfters or Haleyonia on it; butit hath a fine brown Tubulus Marinus, IShall conclude this Book with the Defcription of that furpriflng Crea-ture the Animal Flower obferving thatthe remarkable Place called theSpout ^mSt. Z/^^rvs Parifh, is a large Hollow under a rocky Cliff impendingover the Sea : As the Wav^es continually rufh with a violent Force into thishollow confined Part, it throws upwards, through an Hole in the Surfaceof the Rock, a confiderable Body of Water, from fifteen to fifty Feet high,containing feveral Hogfheads. It may be feen at feveral Miles Diflance. THE
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