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(1888) [MARC] Author: Albert Alberg
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132 The Floral King.

** Favour mie with a reply to this, that this matter
for my conscience may not gnaw at my heart.

‘Here is a theatre by Nature; miracles which
might occupy the greatest Physicus for long time,
and also please a Lithologus who had a mind to
collect various petrifications and rare Ostracodermata,
which I was compelled to leave for those who had
time to remain longer in this locality. When we
now further consider how so many strange animals
have come to be buried in this Bal’s mountain, and
which scarcely now are to be met with in Europe,
we encounter a new argument which claims no less
consideration.

‘“* Teytacea, or the whole shell species, which is
located at the bottom of the sea, is divided into
Littovalia and Pelagica. Shell collectors call those
mussels and shell-creatures ittovales, which do not
keep to the deep, but only close to the land, so that
their shells are thrown upon the shores as soon as
they die and perish, from which reason these shells
are common in natural collections.

** Pelagica, on the contrary, are those shell-
creatures which keep in the depth of the sea, and

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