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Warkworth. It is of a chefnut-colour, marbled with yellow, with 

 broad fafcie or belts, and five convolutions. A thin pellucid film 

 ferves for an operculum at the mouth to keep out the cold, made by 

 the little creature with the fame materials that it makes and ^re- 

 pairs its pretty dwelling, the gluten out of its own body. Statuaries 

 and china-menders pierce it to get the/antes, which they mix with 

 whites of eggs, and quick-lime, and grind all together, as we do 

 paint, till they are incorporated, and fit for ufe. Fraftured marble, 

 and china, are put together with the greatefl expedition and firrn- 

 nefs with this compofition. The flatuary, the pictorift, and meda- 

 lift, alfo apply thefanies of this reptile to their molds, before they 

 take off the impreffions with wax, making the waxen figures 

 come off with more cafe, and with a finer fkin. 



40. Under the fallen leaves and moffes, upon old fhadowy 

 {lone-walls, topped with earth, the elegant little torcular Cochlea (p) 

 is not unfrequent. I met with it in confiderable plenty on one 

 at Shnonburn, oppofite to St. Mango's Well, on the north fide of the 

 r,ivulet. It is flraighr, and flender, half an inch long, mucro- 

 nated, with eight convolutions, of a bright chefnut-colour. The 

 lubricous, cornuted tenant within is a dark grey. 



Lift. Angl. p. u6. t. 2. f. 3. Cochlea. interdum unicolor, interdum variegata, item variis 

 fafciis depicla. Ejufd. Hift. Conchyl. t. i. n. 54. Cochlea vulgaris, tefta variegata. Pettv. 

 Muf. 5. n. 14. Cochlea tefta utrinquc convexa flava ; fafcia fubfolitaria 'fufca, labro reflexo. 

 Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 370. n. 1294. 



fp) Buccinum alterum pellucidum fubflavum, intra fcnas fpiras mucronatum. Lift. Angl. 

 p. 12.4- t. i. f. n. Cochlea tefta oblonga obtufa, ritu rotundo, fpiris ok>, decem, duo- 

 decim. Linn. Acl. Upf. 1736. p. 41. n. 20. Cochlea tefta pellucida oblonga, fpiris 

 decim finiftrorfis, apertuia fubrotunda. faun. Suec. p 372. n. 1300. 



41. In 



