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Volume 17 · 65 words · 1810 Edition

the petrified teeth of the lupus-fish, or wolf-fish, frequently found fossile. They are of different shapes; but the most common kind rise into a semicircular form, and are hollow within, somewhat resembling an acorn-cup; this hollow is found sometimes empty, and sometimes filled with the stratum in which it is immersed. Many of them have an outer circle, of a different colour from the rest.