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satisfied with any place in the system for it ; and even 
now we are not certain of the propriety of placing it 
among land shells, for the specimen (fig. 1.) has a hole 
in its side, such as is frequently bored by some marine 
animal ; this is in the Rev. Mr. Leatlie’s collection. 
Should Lamarck’s second division contain princi- 
pally marine shells, as some persons suppose, and not 
land ones as he states, his genus Conovulus should be 
again received, and the fossil before us referred to it : 
a change that will remove the difficulties above alluded 
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