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CRAB, SHRIMP, AND LOBSTER LORE. 



being the obtainment of a sufficient quantity to 

 enjoy. 



Many of the rivers emptying themselves into the 

 Carribean Sea, after flowing through Florida, contain 

 at their mouths, within the influence of the salt water, 

 Prawns of very large size. These have been im- 

 properly called " The craivfish of America,'' but they 

 are true members of the Pra^7n family {Palcemon 

 setifenis) ; many of these measure between seven and 

 eight inches in length, and hke their relatives in other 

 seas, are by no means bad to eat. Many of our readers 

 will no doubt have observed, when engaged in the 

 pleasant operation of sheUing their bright scarlet 



Prawns, before eating them, that on tlic carapace of one 

 here and there, exists an oval, bladder-like projection, as 

 though some smooth, transparent, univalve shell, had 



