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I have difleded feveral times before the Wine-yard 
SnaiJ, and that of the bigg,eft fort I could meet with, for 
to (if it were poffible) inquire into its Generation, and 
to find the Young Ones in its Belly but it has been al- 
ways in vain, and now their Generation out of an Egg, 
eomes by Chance, and without great Trouble to my 
Sight. 
I have many times wofidred in the Spring, to fee 
thofe little Snails fo early on the Knops and Branches of 
the Vine, becaufe i could not imagine, that the Snails 
ibould have brought forth thefe Young Ones fo early in 
the Year. But now we fee, that they come forth out of 
Eggs, and thus we can eafily comprehend that thefe 
Eggs lay in the Earth ail the Winter along, and by the 
firft warm Weather are hatched. 
I have al(b {een feveral times , rhat the Shells 
of the greateft fort of the Wine-yard Snail, b^rh 
been thus infeded as if they had been under the Grouad^ 
in which I could never (attsfy my (elf: But now fmce 
we know that thefe Snails lay their Eggs in the Earthy 
they confequently mud creep under the Ground themi- 
felves, this being thus, we have no more Reafon to 
wonder by feeing the Shell of the Wine-yard Snail ihm-. 
covered and infetied Vt^ith Earth and Slime. 
\ This may look a little Strange to feme, that the Wine- 
yard Snail fliould creep into the Earth^t not after they 
have had Experience, the like to it hath l^ppened feveral 
times to me, viz. That the wine-yard Snarl lying upco^ 
the Ground r havhig prefSd it with the Heel of 
my Foot into the Ground, after a little while it g^ot it 
felf out again, (if the Shell is not broke.) 
Thereiore we fee (as it is faid before) that the Gene-- 
ration oi the Wine-yard Snail happens by Egg^, the oB$ 
Opinion is confequently to be laid afide, viz, Th^ the 
Snails come forth by the fpoifd and rotten Leaves of/ 
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