a _ NATURAL HISTORY, 
ed forward by another underneath, and fo on, till it comes to be on @ 
Aevel with the old ‘hell. 
That you may be certain that this fhell proceeds from the pores, 
you need only take film on the infide of an egg-fhell, and flide it gently 
'- between the body of the Snail, and the extremity of the fra@ure, and 
you will find the fhell continue in the fame ftate as it was after it ‘was 
-firft broken ; and fill to make this more plain, you will find that the 
fubitance which was to repair the thell, will ftick to the film, and there 
form another hell. }7 ; 
The great garden Snail, is the largeft of the common fort, it being 
about three quarters of an inch in height, amd as much in diameter, 
and the body of the fhell is rounded: the mouth of the fhell is large, 
and nearly round, but it is in part filled up by the fucceeding turn of 
the fhell: the clavicle or tail, has four turns, and is blunt at the ex- 
tremity: the colour of the thell is of -a dufky brown, except a broad - 
ftreak which runs along it, following the fpiral turn of the fhell. Some- 
times there are two others more faint, and above and below that in 
the middle, there run feveral broad and fhort oblique lines or clouds, 
of a different brown. It is almoft every where to be met with in the 
fpring, in the gardens and orchards throughout England. 
The brown clouded Snail with a round body,’ was not a native of 
England till very lately, it being originally brought from France, as a 
medicine for a gentleman; at which rime many of them were turned 
alive into his garden, from whénce the adjacent parts have been fur- 
nifhed with them: that is in the county of Surry. -It is above an inch 
in height, and as much in diameter, and the fhell is confiderably firm 
and firong. Its colour is of a deep dufky brown, variegated with cloud- 
ed fpots, and oblique ftreaks, of a paler colour: the body of the thell 
is rounded, and the mouth nearly round, only a part of it is filled up 
by the fucceeding turn of the théll: the clavicle is high, and has four 
turns, : “3 
The yellow Snail with a round body, is about three quarters of an 
inch high, and as much in diameter: the body of the fhell is rounded, 
as in the two former kinds ; but the mouth is more depreffed, and the _ 
clavicle'has four turns, and is terminated by a little round button: 
the thell is confiderably thick and firm, and the general colour is of a 
dutky yellow, only it has a fingle broad ftreak of a deep brown, fol- 
lowing the fpiral turn of the thel, and placed exaély in its middle. 
‘Tt has alfo fome other faint variegations of brown, and the mouth is 
furrounded with a thick rim of white. ‘It is net: very common, but 
may be met with under hedges in the welt of England: there are three 
other forts of the common large Snail, namely the brown and white Snail, 
with a deprefied clavicle: the great brown Snail with a few variega- 
tions, and a raifed clavicle; and the large blueifh Snail. 
‘The plain yellow Snail, is of the fmaller {pecies, it being no more 
than half an inch in height, and about as much in diameter ; the body 
of the hell is not fo diitin@ from the. clavicle, as in the larger forts, 
and yet. there may be five turns; which are eafily difcovered in the 
whole fhell, and the clavicle rifes from the reft of the fhell, but it has 
a blunt termination: the mouth is large, and is nearly round, but it is 
deprefled, and is partly filled up by the fucceeding turns of the thell: 
the colour is generally of a plain bright yellow, without Vari¢_ation, 
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