Pearl shells from the Red Sea: mussel, pinna, and oyster. Copperplate engraving from James Bruce's "Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773," London, 1790. James Bruce (1730-1794) was a Scottish explorer and travel writer who spent more than 12 years in North Africa and Ethiopia. Engraved by Heath after an original drawing by Bruce.

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