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Excerpt from The Conchologist's Companion
The elegant science of Conchology, my friend, com prises the knowledge arrangement, and description of testaceous animals; a science, according to Lin naeus, which has for its basis the internal form and character Of the Shell, and is totally independent of the animal inclosed within the calcareous covering, though undoubtedly its instincts and construction are included in the researches of the Conchologist. Each individual is composed Of two parts: one of which is the animal itself, and though soft and bone less, it is furnished with organs peculiarly adapted B.
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