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NATURAL HISTORY 
SNAIL. 
This creature is furnished with the organs 
of life in a manner almost as complete as 
the largest animal. It has a tongue, brain, 
salival glands, nerves, stomach, ar.d intes- 
tines; liver, heart, and bloodvessels. When 
the Snail is in motion, four horns are dis- 
tinctly seen ; its eyes arc fixed at the extre- 
mity of the two uppermost. Under the 
small horns is its mouth, which though it 
may appear too soft to be furnished with 
teeth, yet it has eight, with which it devours 
leaves and other substances, seemingly 
harder than itself, and with which it some- 
times bites oil' pieces of its own shell. As 
the winter approaches, they bury themselves 
in the earth, or retire to some hole, during 
the severity of the season. 
