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at the diftance of * d of the circuit of the fhell, is laid a 
a Lift, in fhape imitating the faid right Lip. At the fame 
diftance, a pretty broad-pointed knob. By both thefe and 
tht 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 fliort-fnouted, 
or hath no horn. Of this fort are feveral here pre- 
ferv d. 
It is affirm'd by Ariftotle, (a) That you may know how j£> Hift/An. 
many years a Wilk^ is of, by the number of Rounds in the 1 ' 5 * c * 1%f 
Turban. Of the manner of laying their Eggs, fee Bello- 
niw. 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 fifhed out c £ ) De 
of the Sea at Sc arbrougb. Tk.u *" 
A Wilk, faith Nicolaus Myreffius, being burnt , pow- 
dered, and mixed with old Oil to the confiftence of Glew, 
and fo the Head, firft 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 WilkzjheU^ and it is 
obferved, faith Wormius, ( c) to do them good. ( c ) Mufeum, 
The W I L K-S N A I L. Buccicochlea. So I call it , 
becaufe, in Figure, it approaches to the Wil^ to the Com- 
mon Snail, in the thinnefs of its fhell. Columna (d) defcribes 00 Lib - & 
and figures tliis with the Title of Buccinum exoticum varie- tX. & 
gatum. 
The WILK-SNAIL winding, from the Mouth, towards 
the right Hand 3 whereas almoft all other fhells wind the 
contrary way. The Mouth is white as M/74, 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 
thatot common Land-Sjiails. Of kin to that ihell defcnbed 
by Mr. Lyfter under Tit. 1. lib. de Cochl. Mar. 
The BELLY'D-LONG WHIRLE. Turbo Ventricofus, 
This fhell runs all into a Whirle or Turban. It is alfo bel ly'd, 
i. e. fwells out a little betwixt the Mouth and the Cone* 
And the left Lip is uneven with oblique Furrows, 
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