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Several beetles, cockroaches & other insects

Un pucelage couleur d'agathe raye à dents
Trans.: A pucelage the color of agathe [agate?] striped with teeth

The hippocampus from Dr. Franklin's collection

Differentes especes de terebratules, rondes, oblongues, striees lisses, [luillées?], &c.
Trans.: Differerent species of terebratula, round, oblong, smooth ridges, [glowing?], etc.

A large helmet-Shell eight inches long and Six heigh the [mouth?] from the West-Indies

Le Sabot Entouré de rangs des pointes jaunetres
Trans.: The sabot surrounded by rows of yellow tips

Small horse Shoe crabs from the Sea Shore at black point

Deux coquillages univalves de la sorte nommé Porcellanæ en français argus de la baye de Honduras
Trans.: Two univalve shells of the kind named Porcellanae in French argus from the bay of Honduras

Four large bivalves called rising suns & Some others

Une huitre nommée gâ teau feuilleté jointe a une branche de coral blanc
Trans.: An oyster called a gâteau feuilleté attached to a branch of white coral

A Sea Egg or Echinites with large mamilla