G. Sherriff Tye

“ If any of our friends, while reading these notes, will take the map of England, they will readily see that, with three exceptions, the counties enumerated as habitats, are contiguous; and whether we ascribe its distribution to the creature's own powers of migration, or to man's agency, the result is the same; and we should scarcely expect that, in its spread, it would skirt the eastern coast from the south, and travel from south up the central counties, and miss those indicated. ”

“ In all these places it extends for a considerable distance along the road. Nearly all the shells are rufous and white, white shells being uncommon; for, although Reeve says "the lower half of the shell is always tinged with a rufous foxy rust colour," it is not so; pure white shells are not uncommon in the south-eastern counties on the chalk, and occur occasionally wherever the species is plentiful.
The shells vary in size and texture, recording to the nature of the creature's habitat ”