. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. LAXD I more eccentric Lanil Snail, Jldix (Aikis/oiiki) ij/o/ih/hs i-y HcVix Iwrtensis, or arbustorHin, suddenly pulls up, iipertui-e on a plane with the spire. grow, lOUth 7/A(, fortify the entrance to their shell by the aperture, so as to lead one to nnirvel 1 or out of his own house, and still more more thar L l,(iOO species. Thei Tierra del Fuego. Their great^ days. The st like the ordin tight, produces the apertui-e on a plane with tli Many of the Laud Snails, not furnished with op^ secreting a number of shelly plates, or t
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. LAXD I more eccentric Lanil Snail, Jldix (Aikis/oiiki) ij/o/ih/hs i-y HcVix Iwrtensis, or arbustorHin, suddenly pulls up, iipertui-e on a plane with the spire. grow, lOUth 7/A(, fortify the entrance to their shell by the aperture, so as to lead one to nnirvel 1 or out of his own house, and still more more thar L l,(iOO species. Thei Tierra del Fuego. Their great^ days. The st like the ordin tight, produces the apertui-e on a plane with tli Many of the Laud Snails, not furnished with op^ secreting a number of shelly plates, or teeth, aroun how the occupant of the shell ever managed to get how the eggs were excluded. Snails arc world-wide in their distribution, nuniberin northern limits extend as far development is in the warm and humid regions of the globe. They attain in the Andes to an eleva- tion of 1 1,000 feet, and to 8,000 feet in Ceylon. About fifty species of J/clLi; ai-e found fossil in the Tertiary rocks. The Snails found on oceanic islands are mostly peculiar. The Land Snails, such as th • Helix urbiistorum and //. aspersn, are the favourite food of the Blackbird and Thrush, and a smaller species of Helix, common on saud3' pastures, is said by Patterson to be eaten in vast numbers by the sheep when grazing, and to form a very fattening kind of food. Another Land Snail [Helix pomatia) was highly esteemed by the Romans, who fattened them as articles of food. They are still found abundantly in many localities in the south of England, especially about the sites of old Roman villas in Gloucestershire. They were at one time appreciated as an article of food, and when boiled in spring water, and seasoned with oil, salt, and pepper, they make a dainty dish. The French still eat them , as do also the poorer classes in Spain and Italy; the Brazilians also taz Land Snails. Everj' one who visits Paris .should taste a dish of Snails ; they are most delicious. In summer and winter Land Snai
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