A large Turbo found on a hill 60 miles below Alexandria on the Patomac River

Object Status:

Unlocated

Primary Source Reference:

Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 88

Additional Source Text:

"And about 50 feet above the surface of the river." Poulson's American Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia), 21 Nov 1817 reads: "Turbo Shell."

Notes:

A shell of a gastropod mollusc of the family Turbinidæ.