THE ESCULENT SNAIL. 5S9 



it was by sir Kenelm Digby ; and Da Costa that a 

 Charles Howard, esq., of the Arundel family,- 

 brought some of them, in the last century, from 

 Italy, in the hopes of rendering them an article of 

 food in this country, and for this purpose dispersed 

 them about the woods and downs of Albury, an an- 

 cient seat of that family near Boxhill in Surry. They 

 are now to be found in considerable plenty, not only 

 there, but in parts of the confines of Sussex. 



