with a little quiver or refervoir of them during the 

 breeding feafon: this internal quiver or repofitory of 

 the darts is (ituated within the neck, and opens exter- 

 nally on the right fide. Upon the difcharge oi the 

 firll dart, the wounded Snail immediately retaliates 

 upon the aggreflbr, and difcharges a (imilar one; the 



other again renews the battle, and IS again in its turn 

 wounded; and thus the darts of Cupid, fo long and 

 loudly celebrated by poets and love is, and which are- 



metaphorical with all the refl of the creation, are here 

 completely realized. When the- animals have' continu- 

 ed lor fome time the combat ju(l elelcribcel, a reconci- 

 liation takes place, and they unite; alter vvhieh rhey 

 are folicitOUS to elepoiit their eggs in a place offafety. 

 For this purpofe they choofe a moifl, cool fit nation, 

 generally under fome little clod, or in fome- (mall (hel- 

 tered cavity, in which they place them : they are per- 

 fectly round j about the fize of very (mall peafe, ofa 

 femi-tranfparent white colour, and ofa foft fubftance: 

 from thefe the young are hate heel completely formed, 

 and with their (hells on their backs, and undergo no 

 farther change than a gradual increafe of fize. 



The: depredations which thefe: animals commit in 

 gardens and orchards is very confiderable, and it is re- 

 markable that in deled of moil! fue< ulent food, as fruit 

 and tender Wave's, they will even attaek fubftances of 

 a hard and dry nature. I have known the 1 common 

 garden Snail here figured, when confined for one night 



under a glafs of more than lour inches in diameter, 

 which was placed on a (heet ol common blue paper, 

 entirely devour the whole paper contained m the inclu- 



