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POPULAR, CONCHOLOGY. 



which have appeared, particularly those so beautifully 

 illustrated by Reeve and Sowerby, in which each specific 

 variety is introduced : that they would extend these re- 

 marks much beyond a short treatise, is evident from the 

 circumstance that one genus alone, the Helix, or land snail, 

 comprises nearly a thousand different species. 



