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Gualtlerl has arranged all the tapei* 

 Shells together, both round-mouthecl 

 and thefe, in his Part III. Clafs 5. and 

 calls them Turbo, or Cochleae with a 

 fmall mouth, and remarkable lengthened 

 or taper body* The French authors Ar-« 

 genviile and Davila call them all, Turbo 

 and Strombus fLa Vis or Screws)'; and 

 Rumphius likevvife calls them Strombus. 



Lifter, on what account I cannot di-^ 

 vine, has called the Olives, Rhombi or 

 Strombi ; but the great Linnaeus has been 

 pleafed to change the eftabliflied name of 

 Strombus, always ufed for thefe taper 



Shells, to others of a quite different form 5 

 for his Strombi, except fome few, are 

 winged Shells or Alatae. I have in ano-* 

 ther place taken notice of that celebrated 

 author's licentioufnefs in changing audi 

 franfpofing long-eftablifhed names^ which 

 1 hold is very blameable. 



