. Shells and sea-life. A FEW MORE MOLLUSKS. 109. of the Solengenus,whichthey got inq ua n ti t y,and Av e r eeasily dis-covered bytheir spout- Figure 72. ing up water as the men walked over the sandswhich they inhabited. He gives a good picture of the shell in his book, which was printedmore than a centuryago; and so it hap-pens that this is thefirst shell of ourcoast that was everFigure 73. described and fig- ured by the original collector. Findthe place on your maps where Cap-tain Dixons men dug these fine Razor-clams out of the sands of the Alaskanshore. The last shells of mollusks that wew
. Shells and sea-life. A FEW MORE MOLLUSKS. 109. of the Solengenus,whichthey got inq ua n ti t y,and Av e r eeasily dis-covered bytheir spout- Figure 72. ing up water as the men walked over the sandswhich they inhabited. He gives a good picture of the shell in his book, which was printedmore than a centuryago; and so it hap-pens that this is thefirst shell of ourcoast that was everFigure 73. described and fig- ured by the original collector. Findthe place on your maps where Cap-tain Dixons men dug these fine Razor-clams out of the sands of the Alaskanshore. The last shells of mollusks that wewill consider in this book are thoseof the Piddocks. They are bivalves,and have a habit of boring holes into Figure
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