Part I. 
Of Shells. 
at the diftance of * d of the circuit of the fhell, is laid a 
a Lift, m fhape imitating the faid right Lip. At the fame 
diftance, a pretty broad-pointed knob. By both thefe and 
the right Lip the fhell is made Triangular. The knobs on 
the right Lip and Lift, are white, theother parts tawny, and 
as it were wrinkled. The Turban? which hath fix rounds, 
is alfo a little angular. 
The COMMON WILK. This fort is fhort-fnouted, 
or hath no horn. Of this fort are feveral here pre- 
fervd. 
It is affirm' d by Ariftotk, (a) That you may know how M Hift. r An, 
many years a Wilk is of, by the number of Rounds in the 1 ' 5 * c * I5a 
Turban. Of the manner of laying their Eggs, fee BeUo- 
nius. They are defired by fome, as a rare fort of Meat. 
The beft are in clean Creeks. That which Mr. Lyfter de- 
fcribes, (b) by the Name of Buccinum maximum? is fifhcd out ( b ) De 
€ U c i c 1 1 Cochl. Mar* 
or the Sea at S car trough. Tit> , m 
A Wilk, faith Nicolam M)repfius; being burnt , pow- 
dered, and mixed with old Oil to the confiftence of Glew, 
and fo the Head, hrft fhaved and rub cl, anointed there- 
with, is an admirable Remedy againft Baldnefs and Morph 
of long ftanding. Tis ufual to give Drink to Children 
that have the Chin-Cough > out of a Wilk-Jhell 5 and it is 
obferved, faith Wormiws, (c) to do them good, (c) Mufeura 
The W ILK-SNAIL. Buccicochlea. Sol call it, 
becaufe, in Figure, it approaches to the Wilk-, to the Com- 
mon Snail? in the thinnefs of its fhell. Columna (d) defcribes (*) Lib - ^ 
and figures tins with the Title of Buccinum exoticum varie- xS & 
gatum. 
The WILK-SNAIL winding, from the Mouth, towards 
the right Hand 5 whereas almoft all other fhells wind the 
contrary way. The Mouth is white as Milk., and almoft 
Oval. The left Lip fpread and turned outward. The 
Rounds are Convex,as in the Wilk In number fix, fpeckled 
with yellow Bay and blew fpots. The fhell is as thin as 
that of common Land-Snails. Of kin to that lhell defcribed 
by Mr. Lyfter under Tit. 1. lib. de Cochl. Mar. 
The BELLY'D-LONG WHIRLE. Turbo Ventrifofm 
This fhell runs all Lito a Whirle or Turban. It is alfo belly'd, 
i. e. fwells out a little betwixt the Mouth and the Cone, 
And the left Lip is yen with oblique Furrows. 
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