Ocean between Europe and America. 1 5 



For a more minute defcription of which I 

 muft refer the reader to another work, I 

 intend to publifli. In fome places we faw 

 a crab of the fize of the fill, fwimming by 

 the continual motion of its feet, which be- 

 ing at reft, the animal began immediately 

 to fink. And one time I met with a great 

 red crawf/h, or lobfter, floating on the furface 

 of the fea. 



Blubbers, or Medufce Linn, we found of 

 three kinds : the firft is the Medufa aurita 

 Linn j it is round, purple coloured, opens 

 like a bag, and in it are as if it were four 

 white rings, their lize varies from one inch 

 diameter to fix inches -, they have not that 

 nettling and burning quality which other 

 blubbers have, fuch for inftance as are on 

 the coafl of Norway, and in the ocean. Thefe 

 we met chiefly in the channel and in the 

 Bay of Bifcay. 



After having crofted more than half of 

 the ocean between Europe and America, we 

 met with a kind of blubber, which is known 

 to Sailors by the name of the Spanijh or 

 Portugueze man of War, it looks like a great 

 bladder, or the lungs of a quadruped, com- 

 prefled on both fides, about fix inches in 

 diameter, of a fine purple-red colour, and 

 when touched by the naked ikin of the 

 human body, it caufes a greater burning than 



any 



