ABSTRACT
The shell of the shell-fish being harder than most of other kinds, are broken with a smart stroak of a hammer, on a plate of Iron, or firm piece of Timber, with their mouth downwards, so as not to crush the Body of the fish within. The broken pieces being picked off, there appears a white vein, lying transversly in a little furrow or cleft, next to the head of the fish, which is digg’d out with the stiff point of the Horse hair pencil, being made short and tapering. The Shells are of diverse colours, but the most part of them white; some are red, when newly taken off the Rocks; some yellow; others of both those colours; some a blackish brown; many a Sandy colour; and some few striped with white and brown parallel lines.
