CHAPTER VI. 



(THE PHENOMENA OF CRABS, ETC., CASTING THEIR SHELLS.) 



'As Samson at his marriage propounded a riddle to his companions to try their 

 wits thereon, so God offereth such enigmas in Nature, partly that men may make 

 use of their admiring as well as of their understanding ; partly that philosophers 

 may be taught their distance betwixt themselves, who are but the lovers, and God, 

 who is the giver of wisdom.' INTRODUCTION TO CONCHOLOGT, page 384. 



