Excerpt from A Voyage to Spitzbergen: Containing an Account of That Country, of the Zoology of the North; Of the Shetland Islands; And of the Whale Fishery
Among the sands on the shore are found. Stones resembling snakes without heads, the Cornu um monis of naturalists. These stones are easily known by circular, or rather spiral windings mark ed on their outside. One of these being broken, its interior exhibits the appearance of a snake rolled up and ready to make a spring.
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