Fors clavigera. Letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain (1900)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston, Jefferson Press · leaf 165
sides these, there are four or five younger shells, the smallestof which has only two and a half whorls, which exactly cor-respond to two and a half whorls taken from any of the largershells ; so I think we may conclude that a shell grows byadding on length only to the large end of a tapering…
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