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The red mottled Reck-Crab. 
OEERS HE body of this Crab is 
2 round; the legs larger and 
oi » longer than in other kinds; 
the claws red, except which, 
Bene ee the wholesis smotied in a 
beautiful manner with red and white. 
‘Thefe Crabs inhabit the rocks hanging 
over the Sea: they are the nimbleft of 
all other Crabs; they run with furprifing 
agility along the upright fide of a rock, 
and even under rocks that hang horizon- 
tally over the Sea; this they are often 
neceflitated to do, for efcaping the affaults 
of rapacious birds which purfue them. 
‘Thefe Crabs, fo far as I could obferve, 
never go to land, but frequent moftly 
thofe parts of the promontories and iflands 
of rocks, in and near the Sea, where, by 
the continual and violent agitation of the 
waves againft the rocks, they are always 
wet, continually receiving the fpray o 
the Sea, which often wafhes them into 
it; but they inftantly return to the rock 
again, not being able to live under water, 
and yet requiring more of that element 
than any of the cruftaceous kinds that are 
not 
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Cancre de Rocher tachete. 
Gy E corps de ce Cancre eft rond, 
ek il a les pattes plus longues 
CP plus groffes que les autres 
efpeces: fes ferres font rouges, 
&cP tout le refte eft tacheté dune 
agréable de rouge &3 de blanc. 
Ces Cancres fe tiennent dans les rochers, 
qui savancent fur la Mer: ils fout les plus 
agiles de tous les Cancres, &3 courent avec 
une agilité fuprénante fur le cote perpen- 
diculatre d'un rocher, &P mime fur le def- 
fous des rochers qui Savancent horizon. 
talement fur la Mer, @ quoi ils font fou- 
vent obligés, pour échaper aux attaques 
des otfeaux de proye qui les pourfuivent. 
Ces Cancres, autant que jai pu Pobferver, 
ue vont jamais dans les terres, mais [e 
tiennent prefque toujours dans les endroits 
des promontoires, € des tiles de rochers gut 
Sout dans la Mer, ou pres dela Mer, ob par 
la violente &3 continuelle agitation des vagues 
contre les rochers, ils font toujours mouillés, 
tant continuellement expofés au choc de 
a Mer qui les emporte fouvent; mais ils 
retournent Pabord a leurs rochers, car tls ne 
peuvent pas vivre fous Peau, &P cependant 
ils ont plus befoin de cet Element gw aucune 
autre efpece de cruftacés qui ne font pas 
poiffous. 
CANCER CHELIS CRASSISSIMIS 
The roughhell’d Crab. 
HESE Crabs are ufually of the fize. of the 
gure, and are commonly taken from the 
bottom of the fea in fhallow water: the legs, con- 
trary to the precedent, are {mall in proportion to its 
the two 
underftood by the figure of it, than by the moft 
tedious defcription, I fhall only obferve, that the 
whole fhell is covered with innumerable little tuber- 
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common width and largenefs of its claws. 
Cancre a la coque raboteufe. 
ure 3 na coutume de les prendre au 
fond des eaux baffes: leurs jambes, au contraire des 
precedens, font petites a proportion de leur corps; les 
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rune, & tachétce de violet en différentes manieres. 
La forme de ce Cancre eft finguliere, & Jur tout en ce 
que Jes yeux font fi proches Pun de 1 autre, & que Jes 
mordans font fi grands & fi larges. 
