2o6 C O N C H O L O G Y. 



mouths of the Strombi are long, and have 

 a very thick columella afide them, ere£t, 

 and fomevvhat twirled ; and many kinds 

 befides prolong into a wry gutter, turning 

 backwards, like the mouth of a Soal, or 

 Other flat-fifii. 



The iirft, or body whirl or fpire, is not 

 more than proportionably fwelled, fo that 

 the whole Shell gradually tapers to a fliarp 

 point. 



Lifter, who is critically methodical, has 

 arranged this genus as Snails with a very 

 long aiid (lender turban. Rumphius inter- 

 ijiixes them with the Strombi, as does alfo 

 Argenville, Gualtieri, and Davila, who^ 

 call them Turbo or Strombus. Mcuf- 

 chen likewife intermixes them, and Lin- 

 naeus ranks them in his genus of Turbo, 



Thcfc 3«e not many fpecies qf thv5 



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