Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . enjoyed wonderful pros]ierity as the princi-pal intermediary in trade between Europe (Greece)and Lydia ; but in 630 it was captured anddestroyed by Alyattes, king of Lydia. For morethan three hundred years it maintained merely existence ; but it was at length rebuilt ona ditfereiit site by Antigonus, and further enlargedand fortified by Lysiniachus, both inheritors of theconquests of Alexander the Great. Under theliomans its commercial fame was revived, thoughit had rivals in Ephesus and Pergamum, and at alater d
Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . enjoyed wonderful pros]ierity as the princi-pal intermediary in trade between Europe (Greece)and Lydia ; but in 630 it was captured anddestroyed by Alyattes, king of Lydia. For morethan three hundred years it maintained merely existence ; but it was at length rebuilt ona ditfereiit site by Antigonus, and further enlargedand fortified by Lysiniachus, both inheritors of theconquests of Alexander the Great. Under theliomans its commercial fame was revived, thoughit had rivals in Ephesus and Pergamum, and at alater date a still more formidable rival in Byzan-tium, to the emperors of which it belonged. Itwas frequenlly sacked by the Turks and suMeredmany reverses, being destroyed by Tamerlane(1402) and linally captured by the Turks underMurad II. in 1424. See liougon, Sinjjrtu-: Hit na-tion CoiHincrrialr ti Kronomiriuc (1892). Snilil, a term employed to designate the s]ieciesof terrestrial Gasteropoda () which have well-formed s]iiral shells. The more tyjiical snails. Fig. 1.—Comnion Snail {Helix a»perm.): a, eggs; b, apjicaniiifi- when newly liatolitil; c, .slightly advanced stage ; d, iiiatuff snail. belong to the genus Helix, of the family Hcliiidie,and have the shell of many whorls, globose, de-|iressed, or conical. The aperture or mouth of theshell is more or less encroached upon by the last 528 SNAIL SNAKE RIVER dait;;,
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