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The fossil zoophytes (1808)

Parkinson, James · printed by Whittingham and published by Nornaville and Fell [et.al] · leaf 279

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ts , in which these fossil bodies have been long known to abound . This circumstance has been particularly noticed by Dugdale , with respect to the family of the Shuckboroughs , for a knowledge of which I am indebted to that assiduous antiquary Mr . Thomas Fisher , to whom we are indebted for the… … “ This family, " Dugdale observes , do bear for their arms , Sable , a Cheveron betwixt three Mullets argent ; relating , as " tis observable , to those little stones called Astroites , which are very like a mullet , and are frequently found in the plowed fields hereabouts * . " The calcareous…

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