i8 2 OS BECK'S VOYAGE. 



The fifhermen brought feveral forts of nfh, 

 as eels, at lead a fort of them, called Paling 

 in the Chinefe language, foals, rays, and Chinefe 



crabs. 



Cancer Chinenjis. Thefe are as big again 

 as the Swedifi crabs ; the body is almoft 

 tranfparent, as long as a hand is broad : the 

 rojirum has eight incifions above, and four 

 below ; the eyes are exceffively prominent, as 

 if they flood on ftalks ; on the fides are two 

 little leaves ; the fides are lacerated and notch- 

 ed ; the body y befides the tail and head, has 

 .fix articulations ; the tail has four oval leaves, 

 except the middle one-, which is ftiarp pointed., 

 concave, and cylindrical ; the five pair of bind 

 feet are red, and covered with hair towards the 

 inward margin ; the live pair of fore feet are 

 cheliferous ; inflead of the two foremqfi are two 

 pair of bifid feathered ones. 



At night we advanced with wind and tide, 

 and anchored near the Lion's Tczver, which is 

 the firft of three remarkable towers in the way 

 to Canton* 



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