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merely for catching their prey, but alfo for grinding or breaking it 

 into finall pieces, before it is taken into the mouth. 



I have obferved Shrimps to have eggs on their bodies during the 

 whole of the fummer, but in the month of November no eggs were 

 to be found on them. But when we confider, that all the time 

 Shrimps carry eggs on the outfidcs of their bodies, other eggs are 

 forming within them, who can pretend to fay how many times in 

 a year Shrimps bring forth young ? 



I never was able to fatisfy myfelf that I had found a Shrimp of 

 the male fex ; and all the pains I could take in the fearch more and 

 more convinced me that there are no males among thefe creatures, 

 herein refembling thofe fmall flies which I have difcovered, and de- 

 fcribed in another place. 



Thefe things being confidered, namely, that all Shrimps indiffe- 

 rently do bring forth young, and that many times in the year, and 

 every time in very great quantities : thefe confiderations, I fay, 

 fully folve what was once with me a difficulty, in regard to the great 

 quantities of Shrimps which are continually brought forfale, info- 

 much that many perfons in our large towns make a- living by that 

 traffic, befides the people who are employed in taking the Shrimps 

 in the fea. 





