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abounds with them ; insomuch that they are a nuisance, and far sur- 

 pass in number the common, or any other species of English snails. 



The Epicures, or scavoir vivre, of those days, followed this luxu- 

 rious folly, and the snails were scattered or dispersed throughout the 

 kingdom, but not with equal success ; neither have records trans- 

 mitted to posterity the fame of those worthies equal to the Roman 

 Fulvius Harpinus, except of two, the one Sir Kenelm Digby, who 

 dispersed them about Gothurst the seat of that family (now of the 

 Wrights) near Newport Pagnel, in Buckinghamshire, where probably 

 they did not thrive much, as they were not frequent thereabout : the 

 other worthy was a lord Hatton, recorded by Mr. Morton, w r ho 

 scattered them in the coppices at his seat at Kirby, in Northampton- 

 shire, where they did not succeed. 



" Dr. Lister found them about Puckeridge and Ware, in Hert- 

 fordshire ; and observes, they are abundant in the Southern parts* 

 but are not found in the northern parts of this island. 



" In Surry, as before mentioned, they abound ; in several other 

 counties they are not uncommon, as in Oxfordshire, especially about 

 Woodstock and Bladen ; in Gloucefterfhire, in Chedworth parish, 

 and about Frog Mill, in Dorsetshire, &c. but I have never heard 

 that they are yet met with in any of the northern counties." 



