266 POPULAR BRITISH CONCHOLOGY. 



Having thus together contemplated this interesting class 

 of animals, as developed in and around our own beloved 

 island, and observed their characters and habits as far as we 

 could, without making a very abstruse study of what may 

 well be regarded as an intellectual recreation, we must here 

 pause and reflect on the effect produced on our minds by so 

 many proofs of Divine wisdom, and ask each other, 



" Which of us 

 So superficially surveys these things 

 As not to mind from whence they grow ? " 



