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Show An Interesting Islaod. A naturalist says: "One of the best shell collecting grounds it was ever my good fortune to visit was Long Key, in the Tort i igas group of island's, about six miles from Cuba. This was the shell-picker's shell-picker's paradise, as an examination of the island (an island by courtesy of the ocean) showed that it was made up of shells, their broken fragments principally, principal-ly, the residue being plates of a lime secreting alga and bits of coral. I have often sat hero and picked until tired before moving from the spot, tho treasures treas-ures being mainly small univalves of many sixties. '"A curious and interesting feature of this picking was that numbers of the shells, especially tho little periwinkles, j as we called them, were inhabited by hermit cruhs that, during the operation , of collecting, made not tho slightest demonstration, btit once in the pocket 1 of the finder they would assort themselves, them-selves, ami soon tho shells which you had plaeed in these receptacles would appear streaming out conchological processions that wero productive of much interest and amusement to bystanders. by-standers. After a gale I nave seen the shore of this bay so fined with the beautiful purple ianthina and tho little I pearly coiled spirilla that the white line could bo traced for a long distance, away." San Francisco Chronicle, |