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The Hiflory ^ANIMAL 
belted Turbo, called the Child in Twaddling cloaths. 12. The pyramidal Turbo, with 
a deprefied mouth. 13. The thicker, white Turbo, elegantly lineated with yellow.' 
34. The beautifully, variegated Turbo, called the Chinefe obelifk. 15. The ele¬ 
gantly variegated Turbo, with circles of elate tubercles. 16. The oblong, thick, 
Chinefe Turbo, with fine lines, and little granulations between them. 17. The 
whitifb, long-mouthed, fimple Turbo. 18. The plane, yellowifh Turbo. 19. The 
virgated and lineated, brown and yellow Turbo. 20. The long Turbo, with a large, 
deprefied, aurited mouth. 21. The white, roftrated Turbo, with many fpires and 
tubercles on the edges of them. 22. The large, oval-mouthed, yellow and white 
Turbo. 23. The narrow-fpired Turbo, with elegant variegations of black, yellow, 
and red, in lines. 24. The greyilh Turbo, with an elegantly variegated clavicle. 
25. The ribband Turbo, with purple fafcke on a bright yellow ground. 26. The 
deeply-fulcated, round-mouthed Turbo. 27. The whitifh, finuated, many-fpired 
Turbo. 28. The elegantly, variegated, white and yellowifh Turbo. 29. The {len¬ 
der Turbo, with furrowed lines. 30. The brown Turbo, with ftriated lines. 3 i.The 
{lender, aurited Turbo. 32. The very {lender, black, and yellow Turbo. 
V O L U T A, 
T H E Voluta is a fimple {hell, having no hinge, formed of one piece, and of A. 
figure approaching to conic, but fhort; the clavicle being ufually deprefied, in 
all very fhort: the mouth is long, perpendicular, and narrow : the animal inhabiting 
this fhell is a limax. 
Authors, who have written on thefe fubjeds, have in general called thefe {hells 
Rhombi; but as Rhombus is the name of a mathematical figure, which has nothing 
to do with that of this {hell, as not at all refembling it in fhape, it is better cancelled 
then preferved. 
Some of the molt beautiful, as well as of the fcarcefi: and dearefi: {hells we know,, 
are of this genus. 
Voluta fafcia lata flava^ linea punclata infegnita . 
The Voluta , with a broad , yellow fafcia , with a 
punElated line in it. 
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This is one of the fcarcefi: and one of the moft beautiful {hells we are acquainted 
with; the extream rarity of the fpecies occafions people picking up a {hell of it, un¬ 
der whatever difadvantages of decay or wear? and hence it is that we fee fome, the 
colours of which are fo faded, that we are apt to wonder at the price they have been 
fold at, and the admiration with which people fpeak of them $ but we ought to fee a 
perfed and fine fpecimen of it, before we pafs our judgment. 
It is about two inches long, and near an inch in diameter toward the head; from 
this part to the extremity of the mouth it decreafes gradually in fize, fo as to form a 
kind of cone with an obtufe point; the clavicle is carried up from the fame part much 
diminifhing in diameter, and terminates in an obtufe point ; it is nearly equal to one 
third of the length of the body of the fhell, which is longer than the generality of the 
Volute have it: the ground colour of the {hell is a very bright and elegant yellow, 
very much refembling the ground colour of the Syenna marble ; the variegations, how¬ 
ever, take up fo much room, that this ground colour is not feen in the proportion 
of more than a third of the furface : there is a circle of it vifible at the head, of about 
the breadth of a large ftraw j below this there are three broad fafcia, or circles of ele¬ 
gantly varied colouring ; the lowefi: of the three is fomewhat broader than the others, 
and they are all feparated by five lines of the ground colour. Under thefe three cir¬ 
cular lines, the fine yellow of the ground colour fhews itfelf again, in the form of a broad 
fafcia; and in the center of this there runs a narrow, pundated line, of the fame colours 
with the other variegations ; this line is what diftinguifihes, and is the charaderiftic of, 
the Admiral fhell, the Vice-admiral having mofi: of it’s other charaders, but wanting 
this : under this broad yellow fafcia there runs another equally broad, of the fame va¬ 
riegations} and, from the verge of this to the extremity of the fhell, the yellow or 
ground colour prevails again : the clavicle is elegantly variegated with the fame colours, 
in a beautiful irregularity, and with a peculiar brightnefs. 
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