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MEDUSA 



Major fimbr -lata , tentaculis quatuor longijji, 



Urtica marina quibujdi 



The Sea-Nettle. 



This creature grows to a confiderable fize, being feldom under feven or eight 

 pounds in weight. It is of a firm gelatinous confidence and appearance, and adorned 

 with a regular flar upon the back ; but the border, by whole tonic contractions 

 and expanfions it moves in the water, is large and fimbriated. The limbs or tenta- 

 cular are long and flender, and defcend from the center of the mole that lies 

 within the border. 



MEDUSA 2. Major fubrotunda, tentaculis brevioribus. 



The roundifh Sea-Nettle or Blubber. 



Both thefe fpecies are frequent in the harbours of King/Ion and Port- Royal 



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fmaller than the other, and its tentacular are very foft 



waters every calm funfhine day. The fecond fort is 





MEDUSA 3. Major fubcroceo. 



The Orange-coloured Blubber, 



I obferved this fpecies about two hundred leagues to the north of Bermudas ; 

 it was nearly as large as either of the foregoing. 



MEDUSA 4. Minor , anuiis quahior fubrotundis, opacis &fere integris, ten- 



taculis br evi jjimi s . 



The fmall fm'ooth Blubber with 



pake ffcar 



This Blubber is adorned with four opake but imperfect anula, which refemble 



io many horfe-fhoes, their openings being almoft contiguous near the center of the bafe 



MEDUSA 5. Minor glabra, non Jlellata, maculis fubfufcis oblongis undiqiu 



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The mottled Blubber, 



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MEDUSA 6, Minor verucofc 



Jlellata, tentaculis mac u lis 



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" The fmall warted and fpotted Blubber, 



MEDUSA 7. Minima fubfufca verrucqfa. 



The little warted Blubber. 



1 met with thefe four lafl fpecies off the weftern iflands. They are feldom obferved 

 in any other latitude, though very frequent in. thofe parts, where they conftitute 

 the principal part of the food of the loggerhead turtles when out at fea. 



LIGEA 1. Oblongo-ovata, variabilis, ab altera parte truncatd. 



The floating brown Ligea. 



body furnimed with a little opake head of an irre- 

 gular form and brown colour. The gelatinous part feems to float like a membrane 



This is a thin gelatinous 



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