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{Helix aspersa) the same price is realized, and that of 
Helix vermiculata^ amounts to 4800 francs. It is also 
stated, that in the market at Dijon is sold, annually, 
about 6000 francs’ worth of the vine snail, Helix pomatia 
(the escargot par excellence, and called also luma, gros 
luma, and le moucle de vigne), at 1 franc 50 centimes per 
hundred/’t 
In Corsica the same species are eaten ; and it is said 
that, in the island of Ee the sale of these Helicid(B 
amounts annually to 25,000 francs, but probably this 
sum is exaggerated. In Burgundy, Champagne, and 
Franche-Comte, a great quantity of snails of all kinds 
are consumed, and also sent to Paris ; and Professor Sim- 
monds mentions that there are now 50 restaurants, and 
more than 1200 private tables, in that city, where snails 
are considered a delicacy by from 8000 to 10,000 consu- 
mers ; that the monthly consumption of this mollusk is 
estimated at half a million ; again, that the market 
price of the vineyard snail (apple or vine snail. Helix 
pomatia) is from 2^. to 3^. per hundred, while those of 
the hedges, woods, and forests bring only D. Qd. to %s. 
He further adds, that in the vicinity of Dijon the pro- 
prietor of one snailery is said to clear nearly £300 
a year by his snails ; and also that there are exported 
from Crete annually about 20,000 okes (each nearly 
3 lb.) of snails, valued at 15,000 Turkish piastres. 
M. Eenou, (as quoted by M. Cailliaud, of Nantes,) in 
a curious account, read in 1864 before the Academical 
Society at Nantes, on the importance that the ancients 
attached to snails, observed, that during 1862 and 1863 
* Helix vermiculata is sold at Leghorn under the name of cMocciola^ 
and at Naples shares in common with other snails that of maruzze. 
t Dr. Ebrard. 
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