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catch Pond Crabs of a moft beautiful Skv Blue^ 

 that are fhaded all around the edges with a brown- 

 ifh Yellow, and much lefs, though far finer iliaped, 

 both in Body and Claws, than our European onest 

 But their Shells were not worth bringing home 

 to England^ becaufe thofe fine Colours vaniflied 

 with their Life. We have no Sea Crabs ; at leaft 

 that are fit to eat : Clams ftick to our Rocks that 

 are near the Shore, but are not eaten by us. 



17. Our Nevis Lobfters do exadly refemble 

 the EngliJId ones, in bulk, colour, and (liape, ex- 

 cept that their two large Claws are not fo big in 

 proportion to their Bodies: but I once found, to 

 the utmoft hazard of my life, this remarkable 

 and ugly circumftance attending them, viz. Such 

 of them as are found on the Weflern or Leeward 

 fide of our Ifland are reckoned very fine eating; 

 whereas they that are taken on the Eaftern or 

 Windward fide are rank Poifon, which we attri- 

 bute to fome unwholefome kind of Food they 

 meet with there ; fome imagine that they meet 

 with veins of Coperas there : This Poifon works 

 ftrongly, both by dreadful Vomits and Stools. 

 We have alfo great numbers of Sea Cray Fifhes, 

 that are almoft as large as our Lobfters, and are 

 juftly reckoned elegant eating. 



18. Before I take leave of the Weft Indies, I 

 fliall make bold to add one Paragraph about that 

 fingularly beautiful Fifh called a Dolphin, that is 



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