TESTACEOUS ANIMALS. 
SNAIL. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
A spiral shell, sub-pellucid and brittle. 
Mouth of a semilunar shape. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Helix hortensis. H. testa imperforata globosa; labro albo. 
Linn. Syst. Nat. Gmel. 1. p. 3649. 
A globose imperforated shell, with a white lip. 
Cochlea vulgaris major pulla maculata et fas- 
ciata hortensis. List. An. Ang. pi. 2. f. 2. 
Cochlea vulgaris. Da Cost. Br. Conch. 
p. 72. ph 4. f. 1. 
Garden Snail. . Penn. Br. Zool. 4. p. 136. no. 129- ph S4. 
tig. 129. Montague\Test. Brit. p. 408. 
The shell of the snail possesses two advantages of 
essential service to its weak inhabitant ; for it is at 
once extremely solid and uncommonly light : thus 
is the animal protected from injury, and at the same 
time enabled to remove with its house wherever it 
