TJie Garden Snail. 



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lives under this magnificent roof is a kind of snail, dis- 

 agreeable to the eye and insipid to the palate. They 

 are found on the rocks, which are incessantly beaten by 

 the surges and breakers, on the sea-shores of almost 

 every country in the world. Jt is not by any glutinous 

 liquid, as it has been asserted, that this fish adheres so 

 strongly to the rock ; but by the simple process of pro- 

 ducing a vacuum between its foot and the rock to which 

 it affixes itself. 



The variety which is thrown into the sum of animated 

 beings is so wonderfully great, that naturalists have 

 reckoned more than a hundred and twenty-nine species 

 of Limpets, and nearly allied genera; the difference 

 arising principally out of the diversity of the shells in 

 form and colour. 



THE GAEDEN SNAIL, (Helix aspersa,) 



Is furnished with four tentacula, two of which aro 

 smaller than the others ; at the end of these tentacula, 

 which the animal pushes out or draws back, like tele- 

 scopes, are blackish knobs, which are the eyes. Tho 



