with a little quiver or rcfervoir of them during the 
breeding feafon: this internal quiver or repolitory of 
the darts is fituated within the neck, and opens exter¬ 
nally on the right lido. Upon the difeharge of the 
firft dart, the wounded Snail immediately retaliates 
upon the aggrellbr, and difeharges a iimilar one ; the 
other again renews the battle, and is again in its turn 
wounded ; and thus the darts of Cupid, fo long and 
loudly celebrated by poets and lovers, and which are 
metaphorical with all the rell of the creation, arc here 
completely realized. When the animals have continu¬ 
ed for fomc time the combat juft deferibed, a reconci¬ 
liation lakes place, and they unite; alter which they 
are folicitous to depofit their eggs in a place of fafety. 
For this purpofe they choofc a moift, cool lituation, 
generally under fomc little clod, or in fome frnall lliel- 
tered cavity, in which they place them : they arc per¬ 
fectly round ; about the fize of very frnall peafe, of a 
femi-tranfparcnt white colour, and of a loft fubllancc: 
from thefe the young are hatched completely formed, 
and with their Ihells on their backs, and undergo no 
farther change than a gradual inercafe of fize. 
The depredations which thefe animals commit in 
gardens and orchards is very confidcrable, and it is re¬ 
markable that in defeeft of moift fticculent fbod, as fruit 
and tender leaves, they will even attack lubftanccs ol 
a hard and dry nature. I have known the common 
garden Snail here figured, when confined for one night 
under a glafs of more than four inches in diameter, 
which was placed on a fhcet of common blue paper, 
entirely devour the whole paper contained in the im lu- 
