Excerpt from The Land and Fresh Water Shells of the Districts Around Manchester: With Their Particular Localities, To Which Are Added Instructions to CollectorsHaving for many years been occupied in the interesting pursuit of searching the woods, hedge bottoms, ditches, stagnant ponds, and rivers, thirty or forty miles round Manchester, for the Shells peculiar to its locality, and having obtained specimens of nearly if not quite all, that exist within its limits, I have, agreeably to the wishes and suggestions of several of my friends, endeavoured to furnish such an account as will 'f afford Collectors the opportunity of finding for themselves any of the specimens herein described. With this view I have given the exact locality m which each species can be found.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.