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he will creep out of his fhtil a little way ; but 
if he feeth any one coming, he prelently contra- 
fteth hirafelf, and getteth into his fheil again : we 
may learn thus much from it, for our inllruftion, 
that welhould be lilent, and fay but little; and 
thus much it may teach us, for our caution, to have 
a care of our enemies, who do privily lay fnares 
for us when we do not fee them. It is worth our 
obfervation, which Plutarch reporteth of the Sea,- 
fmil ; when fhe layeth her eggs, Ihe goeth out 
upon the fand, and when fhe hath covered them 
with the fand lo that they cannot be feew, goeth 
again into the Sea, and maketh lome private mark 
to find them again by .• thus we have fet down the 
principal qiialities of this ovifarons creature, co- 
vered with a fliell; from whence it may have his 
name Tefindo, aTefiai befides thefe land-fnallsy 
there are rvater-fnalls., or Sea-J^mils,oi the feveral 
kinds of which, the curious may fatisfie themlelves; 
if they look into the treatife which feveral Phyfi~ 
tUns hvft written of the nature of this creature. 
It is reported, that there are very large Snails \r\ 
the Indian Sea. It is a known ftory of t/£fchilfis 
the Poet of Athens^ who having a laid heady an 
feeing of it, and taking it fora ftone, let a 
Jhell-fjh fall upon it, to break it,which falling upon 
his head fo high, killed him : And the Apologue o? 
the Beafisy and other Creatures that were invited 
by Jupiter to a Feaft, is very well known ; all the 
creatures came together, but only the Snail, who 
made his excufe to Jupiter in thefe words, oTk©^ 
om.0? c^fiSTO? ; Propria domus, carljfmn do- 
mus, 
