240 ANIMAL REPRODUCTIONS. 
tive examination, is difcovered to be the lips in» 
volved and confined together. Some are al- 
ready provided with a head complete, all except 
one or two horns. Laftly, the trunk will exhi- 
bit only the two large horns, or the {mall; or one 
large and one foals 
But all thefe partial reproductions, and others 
that afterwards appear, join together in_ procefs 
of time, and by their union form a fingle repro- . 
duction, which is the head, and this, in many 
fnails, is not in the fmalleft degree different from 
the old one, except.in the lighter colour; by means 
of which the leaft obfervant perfon can recognife 
the portion reproduced. One that has complete- 
ly repaired the head is reprefented, fig. 8. It has 
not yet acquired the dark natural colour. Fig, 
g. reprefents the fame, only this {nail has not yet 
repaired the two large horns, as fometimes hap- 
pens. In a little more time, the new head acquires - 
the fame hue as the old, and the one can be dif- 
tinguifhed from the other, only by an afh colour- 
ed line, perpendicular to the axis of the neck, 
which faithfully indicates the place where the 
blade has pafled in mutilating the fnail. This is 
not conftantly a fimple line, fometimes it 1s a 
deep hollow, almoft always of a whitifh colour, 
perpendicular to the neck, if the cut has been 
perpendicular and oblique, if the cut has been 
fo. In the latter cafe, the incavation is frequent- 
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