Hi Conch-L,
 
I received this request for information over the weekend. Can anyone help
Tammy?
 
Lynn Scheu
 
>Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 21:46:50 -0300
>From: Tammy Feeley <[log in to unmask]>
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>Hello;
>I am from Nova Scotia, Canada; we seem to have some eyestones around.
>
>Ever hear of them, they are really alive and apparently from the family
>"turbinidae" and they are the size and shape of a half of a split pea.
>
>People that have them claim to have had them in their families for up to
>200 years, and getting them from seamen carrying shipments of mollasses
>up from the south.
>
>Our local newspaper has done 2 articles lately on these but cannot find
>out just exactly what they are.
>
>They feel like solid shell on both sides, yet put them in water and they
>bubble and move around.
>
>The old folks claim that they are used to put in your eye when somthing
>is in your eye, and it slides it right out.  It's not just a tale
>because this is actually the definition that was printed in a very old
>Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
>
>Please help us if you can, and if you have any other questions I will
>try to answer what I know...........thank you.
>
>Tammy
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