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Streights of La Maire

And this morn was very fine so much so that we landed without any difficulty in the bottom of the bay & spent our time very much to our satisfaction in collecting shells & plants of the former we found some very scarce & fine particularly limpits of several species of these we observd as well as the shortness of our time would permit that the limpit with a longish hole at the top of his shell is inhabited by an animal very different from those which have no such holes here were also some fine whelks one particularly with a long tooth & infinite variety of Lepades Sertularias Onisci &c &c &c much greater variety than I have any where seen but the shortness of our time would not allow us to examine them so we were obligd to content ourselves with taking specimens of as many of them as we could in so short a time scrape together

We returnd on board to dinner & afterwards went into the Countrey about two miles to see the an Indian town which some of our people had given us intelligence

 

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