CLASS NINTH.—ÆS.[76]

[76] Æs, a generic name for a shell—Algonquin.

The number and variety of sea and sometimes fresh water shells worn by

the ancient aborigines, has not been ascertained, but is large. They

are uniformly found to be univalves.

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ÆS MARGINELLA. Fig. 10, Plate I. This species was first

detected in the Grave Creek mound. It is a marginella. The figure is,

incidentally, inexact. Onondaga.

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