Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain: Or Coloured Figures and Descriptions of Those Remains of Testaceous Animals or Shells, Which Have Been Preserved at Various Times and Depths in the Earth
At present the digging for the Archway'at High gate, having led to many unexpected discoveries, and causing a still louder call'for the Elucidation of the remains of Shells, I do not delay to'publish them, especially as they greatly help to form a catalogue that includes many other habitats, even some foreign ones, 'so that ivhen this work is complete, very little vvill remain' to be done to include What are foreign, as one' place will identify another through the whole known world.
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