Excerpt from The Genera Vermium: Exemplified by Various Specimens of the Animals Contained in the Orders of Intestina Et Mollusca Linnaei The animals generally arranged under the Order Mollufca, may not be perhaps fo numerous as is commonly imagined; for this reafon; many of them may be in. Habitants of (hells, whofe ufual abode is in the depths of the Ocean, and may have been forced from their hold in an hof'rile manner, by animals more'powerful than themfelves; and having efcaped the enemy, have rifen to the fur face, and by the hardening nature of the air, may have acquired a toughnefs to their fkin, and like wife {trength futiicient to float or fwim, according to the feveral properties with which nature may have endowed them; in flaort, their external appearance firongly en forces my Opinion, and molt efpe cially when we confider, that the animals of the l\/iollufca, bear fo firong a refemblance in form and generic character to thofe inhabit ing (hells, and that they all are ca pahle of contraction and expanfion. The animals arranged under the orders Vermes and Mollufca, in ternally are endued with inhumer able mufcles, which give them' the peculiar property of increafing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.