r 2 Ocean between Europe and America. 



fink. And one time I met with a great red 

 crawfijh, or hbfter, floating on the furface of the 

 fca. 



BLUBBERS, or Medufe Linn, we found of 

 three kinds : the firft is the Medufa aurita Linn. 

 it is round, purple-coloured, opens like a bag, 

 and in it are as if it were four white rings ; their 

 fize 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 coaft of Norway* and in the ocean. 

 Thefe we met chiefly in the channel, and in the 

 Bay of Bifcay. 



AFTER having croffed more than half of the 

 ocean between Europe and America, we met with 

 a kind of blubber, which is known to failors by 

 the name of the Spaniflj or Portuguese Man of 

 War, it looks like a great bladder, or the lungs 

 of a quadruped, compreffed on both fides, about 

 fix inches in diameter, of a fine purple-red co- 

 lour, and when touched by the naked {kin of the 

 human body, it caufes a greater burning than any 

 other kind of blubber. They are often over- 

 turned by the rolling of the waves, but they are 

 again {landing up in an inftant, and keep the 

 {harp or narrow fide uppermofl, 



WITHIN the American gulf we faw not only 

 thefe Spanifh Men of War, but another kind too* 

 for which the failors had no other name but that 

 of a blubber. It was of the fize of a pewter 

 plate, brown in the middle, with a pale margin, 

 which was in continual motion. 



OF the Lepas anatifera Linn. I faw on the 

 goth of Augitft a log of wood, which floated on, 



the 



