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the Parish, a veiy appropriate name for one of them 

 would be " Elver bridge." 



With the Fishes we dismiss the Harting Vertebrates, 

 every species of which, with two or three exceptions, 

 has, to the best of our recollection, been noticed. In 

 the remaining divisions fcmbarras des richesses will be 

 so overwhelming, that a bare synopsis of the species 

 included in them would exceed the limits we have 

 prescribed to ourselves ; we shall, therefore, necessarily 

 omit the greater number of them, although in doing 

 so we shall have to deal with I'embarras du clioix. 

 That this is no trifling affair, may be gathered from 

 the fact that for every plant in the Parish we may 

 reckon on an average at least half a dozen species of 

 invertebrated animals that either directly or indirectly 

 derive their sustenance from it. 



CHAPTER IV. 



SLUGS AND SNAILS. 



* SNAILS and Slugs in the abstract, are not very 

 attractive objects to the million, at least this may be 

 justly said of the few species to be found at Harting ; 

 but if we were to limit our observation to those 

 natural productions only which have a pleasing ex- 



The many extracts from this chapter to be found in Mr. 

 Harting's " Rambles in search of Shells," published some years 

 after our manuscript was submitted to that gentleman, will 

 probably astonish those who may have an opportunity of com- 

 paring the two ; but their surprise can scarcely exceed that 

 which we felt on finding ourselves so highly complimented by 

 this well-known author and naturalist. We need scarcely say 

 that we fully appreciate his flattering testimony to the merits of 

 our unpretending sketch ; and we take this opportunity of 

 tendering him our thanks. 



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