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 iilt, fwimming by 

 the continual motion of its feet, which be- 

 ing at reft, the animal began immediately 

 to link. And one time I met with a great 

 red crawfjhy or lobjier, floating on the furface 

 of the fea. 



Blubbers, or Medufoe 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 fize varies from one inch 

 diameter to fix inches j they have not that 

 nettling and burning quality which other 

 blubbers have, fuch for inftance as are on 

 the coaft of Norway y and in the ocean. Thefe 

 we met chiefly in the channel and in the 

 Bay of B if cay. 



After having crofled more than half of 

 the ocean between Europe and A??ierica, we 

 met with a kind of blubber, which is known 

 to Sailors by the name of the Spanifi or 

 Portugueze man of War y it looks like a great 

 bladder, or the lungs of a quadruped, com- 

 prefifed on both fides, about fix inches in 

 diameter, of a fine purple-red colour, and 

 when touched by the naked fkin of the 

 human body, it caufes a greater burning than 



any 



