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I AGREE with Mr. Gwyn Jeffreys (NATURE, p. 511) in considering Helix pomatia as indigenous in this country, and not introduced by the Romans. I never found or heard of a single specimen, either living or dead shell, being met with in the neighbourhood of Bath, which the Romans occupied for more than 400 years, though it is found in one or two localities in the adjoining county of Gloucestershire, from whence we have specimens in the museum of the Bath Literary Institution.
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BLOMEFIELD, L. Helix Pomatia, L.. Nature 27, 553 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/027553b0
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