NATURALISTS CABINET. 



Turbinated shell fish. 



the bulk; the sub-caudal fins rather larger. This 

 animal is, at full growth, not above the bulk of 

 the shrimp. 



The squilla inhabits the coast of Kent, and it 

 sold in London under the name of the white 

 shrimp, as it assumes that color when boiled. 



SNJILS. 



IN searching into the history of the turbi- 

 nated shell fish, or those of the snail kind, we 

 are naturally led to bring forward at the head of 

 them the garden snail, as one whose peculiarities 

 it has been more easy to develope, than those 

 who are perfectly of a similar form and nature, 

 but whose residence is chiefly at the bottom of 

 the deep. Indeed these, as well as crabs, lob- 

 sters, shrimps, prawns, &c. are ranked as insects 

 by our most celebrated naturalists; but as such 

 are by the fishmongers considered as fish, we 

 have thought proper to conclude this volume 

 with an account of shell fish in general. 



The snail, to the mere transient observer, ap- 

 pears to be little more than a lump of inactive 

 matter, loaded with a crustaceous covering, and 

 totally insensible to all the objects with which 

 it is surrounded ; but, upon a more close inspec- 

 tion, it will be found to be possessed of every 

 faculty that can be possibly requisite for the life 

 it is formed to lead ; that its organs of life are 

 furnished in as ample a manner as are to be 



