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of shells, they hav^e sometimes been expressed in lines j 

 a line is the twelfth part of an inch. 



The present treatise has been written in as popular 

 a mannar as the subject would admit of. In taking a 

 farewell of the Nottinghamshire Mollusca, 1 cannot 

 refrain from expressing a hope that others may be in- 

 duced to commence this study. The great pleasure, 

 experienced in the investigations which I have 

 made makes me feel convinced that others would have 

 a similar interest, after having fully entered into the 

 subject; — an interest rendered the more intense from a 

 knowledge that all the wonderful facts which have been 

 noticed, obey certain laws, imparted to them by the 

 Great Lawgiver — the Creator of the world and all that 

 it contains. 



" Most beautiful the earth is yet, and beautiful 'twill prove, 

 While one single God-made creature remains its charms to 



love; 

 'Tis man's own sickly blindness makes the world deformed 



alone ; 

 Who know it most, see beauty most; who know it least, see 



none." 



