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Sea Lobjter, or, Long Ojfter, corruptly fo cald from Langoufte, which is its 
iVame in the Market at Montpelier. 
This agrees in every thing with Marcgrave’s Defcription, only the Piz 
ne are black and yellowifh mixt. 
They are found with the other Cra/tacea and are not counted fo good 
Meat as the commoner Sort of Lobfter. I have feen them which have 
been taken on the Coalts of Exglana and at Momtpelier, caught in the Me- 
diterrancan Sea. | 
VIII. Potiquiquyxe Brafilienfibus. Maregr. Sguilla lata Marcgr. p. 186: 
‘An Squrlla lata Rona. p. 545. La Squille large ou Orchetta. Ej. Gall. P- 391- 
Urfacastrata latines Bellon, Aq. p. 345. Urfa Cancer & Squilta lata Rumph, 
Thef. an. p.i. Tab. 2. lit. C. D. Squila Mauritanica lata verrucofa Per. Mem. 
ann. 1708. p. 8. No. 5. 
This I have feen taken near the Canoes in the Sea adjoining to Jamaica, 
Ic differs from the Earopean in having its Body broader, ferrated on the 
Edges, and being fomewhat hairy. 
Nn SN NE atl fale DRO 6 AOR to cen 
IX. Aftacus fluviatilis Gammarus the Crey-fifh. Fon. 18. t. 3. & 20. 
Tab. 4. Aldrov. 129. Gefa. 104.'Merr. Pim. p. 192. Cammarus latinis Bels 
lon. Pp. 355. Aftacus flaviatilis. Dale Pharm. p. 558. 
The Common Craw-fifb, Crevice, or, Efcreviffe, 
It is very often taken in the frefh Water Rivers out of the Holes of the 
petrify’d Rocks. oe AYU LS Pe Sas.) 
They are not counted fo good as the Exglifh Cray-fifh. — 
x. Aftacus fluviatilis major, chelis aculeatis. Tab. 245. Fig. 2. 
This is as large as the Figure, and much exceeds any of the Kind 
Fever faw. Iv is fufficiently. difhinguifh’d -by- the large Claws being 
very prickly. 
It is found in the frefh Water Rivers of ‘famatca. 
XI. Squilla roftrata major. Pet. Mem. Cur. Ann. 1709+ p. 3, N° 4: Sguilla 
ste 547: La Caramote. Ej. Gall. p.394. Prawns molt great and excel- 
lent of Smith Ob/f. p. 54. : | bod sean anh T 
I could not obferve any Difference between the Prawns in: famaica and 
thofe in Ezgland, and do believe them the fame with thofe which were 
taken Notice of by Capt. Smith’ in St. Chriftophers. 
XII. Squilla roftata minor, Pet. Mem. Cur, Ann. 1709: P+ 32 N® 5. Squilla 
Of Dale Suppl. 338. N° xxi. Squilla gibba Rond. p. 549. Garamot. Ej. Gall. 
P-395- Squilla gibba minor, Bellon. p- 356. — 
Shrimps are in the Seas of Sfamaica like wife: 
XAT. Cancellus- & Scyllarus. Rond. ps §33- Paranacare Brafilien ibusi 
Gammarus in concha degens. Marcgr. p. 188. Cancer in teftis degens, Fonft. 
P+ 30: Tab. 7. Wrongheirs, Merr. Pim ps 192. Cancellus Bellon, ps 362. ae 
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