with a little quiver or refervoir of them during the 
breeding feafon: this internal quiver or repofitory of 
the darts is fituated within the neck, and opens exter- 
nally on the right fide. Upon the difcharge of the 
firft dart, the wounded Snail immediately retaliates 
upon the aggreffor, and difcharges a fimilar one; the 
other again renews the battle, and is again in its turn 
wounded; and thus the darts of Cupid, fo long and 
loudly celebrated by poets and lovers, and which are 
metaphorical with all the reft of the creation, are here 
completely realized. When the animals have continu- 
ed for fome time the combat juft defcribed, a reconci- 
liation takes place, and they unite; after which they 
are folicitous to depofit their eggs in a place of fafety. 
For this purpofe they choofe a moift, cool fituation, 
generally under fome little clod, or in fome fmall fhel- 
tered cavity, in which they place them: they are per- 
fectly round ; about the fize of very fmall peafe, of a 
femi-tranfparent white colour, and of a foft fubftance : 
from thefe the young are hatched completely formed, 
and with their fhells on their backs, and undergo no 
farther change than a gradual increafe of fize. 
The depredations which thefe animals commit in 
gardens and orchards is very confiderable, and it is re- 
markable that in defect of moift fucculent food, as fruit 
and tender leaves, they will even attack fubftances of 
a hard and dry nature. I have known the common 
garden Snail here figured, when confined for one night: 
under a glafs of more than four inches in diameter, 
which was placed on a fheet of common blue paper, 
entirely devour the whole paper contained in the inclu- 
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