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Helix

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Helix - A hardware description language from Silvar-Lisco.
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And I found that several species did in this state withstand uninjured an immersion in sea-water during seven days: one of these shells was the Helix pomatia, and after it had again hybernated I put it in sea-water for twenty days, and it perfectly recovered.
The Origin of Species by Darwin, Charles View in context
Of land-shells I collected sixteen kinds (and two marked varieties, of which, with the exception of one Helix found at Tahiti, all are peculiar to this archipelago: a single fresh-water shell (Paludina) is common to Tahiti and Van Diemen's Land.
The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles View in context
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