CHINESE PAGODA. 
withuuu receiving the smallest degree of nou- 
rishaient ; and it owes to this circumstance, an 
appellation which it has ohtained, as well from 
Rumphius, as from some ocher natiiralisrs, ct 
the Long-Lived Snail: in French, L'Escar- 
got a Longue Vie ; in German, Langlebende 
Schnecke. 
The bottom^figure, on the annexed plate, 
represents the under side, or bottom, of this 
shell; and yields not to the upper, either in 
beauty or symmetry. This bottom is almost 
wholly composed of small shells placed one 
above the other, having an appearance not 
very unlike that of the Crocodile's scaly ar- 
mour. The aperture, or mouth, is here sunk 
in a kind of umbilical hole, which seems ro 
unite itself to the animal. This apeiture is of 
a beautiful brown ; which, in the cavity, be- 
comes red. 
