SHELL-MOUNDS
\ʃˈɛlmˈa͡ʊndz], \ʃˈɛlmˈaʊndz], \ʃ_ˈɛ_l_m_ˈaʊ_n_d_z]\
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The mounds found in many places on the shores of northern Europe, and which are composed for the most part of the shells of the oyster, the cockle, the mussel, and other edible mollusca, pointing to an early and barbarous age when the inhabitants used to visit the sea-coast and feed upon the shell-fish found there.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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