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The Sza-Fo RTy-LeEc. 
a HIS is about two Inches and a quarter long ; the Back jointed; 
and divided into feveral dumuli, thick-fet, with fi fhort white 
Briftles. . ; ; 4 
Thefe, when they are all ereé, exactly refemble Pluth. 
The Head is guarded with a Forceps, refembling that of a Land Forty 
Legs; and is found under Stones and Rocks near the Shore. 
The SEa-SucxEr. 
6 Bo almoft fhapelefs Animal is of a brown fungous tough Jel- 
ly-like Subftance, fticking to the Rock always under Water: At a 
Diftance, it hath the Appearance of a Sponge. 
Tt is generally of an irregular roundifh Shape, of about an Inch and 
an half in Diameter. 
In the Centre of it appears a round Hole, about a quarter of an 
Inch broad: This I take to be its Mouth; for when this is touched, it 
clofes its Sides together. i 
I SHALL finith this Clafs of Exanguious Animals, by defcribing one 
of a furprifing Make, fixed to the Rocks and Stones, without any 
thelly Covering. : 
Its Length, is about an Inch, and three Quarters ; and is an Inch in 
Diameter ; the Outfide granated, very much refembling the Roe of a 
Fifh, interfperfed with Véins of a Snuff-colour, and pale-red, mixed with 
very pale green Lifts: When it is feeding, both Ends are flat, the one 
cleaving to the Rock, the other expofed to the Flux and Reflux of the 
Waves: In the Centre of the latter is its Mouth : In this, when it opens, 
or gapes to receive what Nourifhment the Sea, by the dafhing of its 
Waves, throws in its Way, are feen innumerable fmall blunt {piral 
Feelers, of about a quarter of an Inch long; interwoven within one 
another: Thefe are all in Motion, as well as the Mouth open, when the 
Waves dafh againft the Rocks they are upon, as if they were, at that In- 
ftant, in Search of Food. In the Intermiffion of the Waves, the Mouth 
clofes ; and thefe Feclers, which are very many, and much refembling, 
in Shape, the fmall Vefcule, which conftitutes the pulpy Part of Oranges 
or Lemons) are contracted, and with a ftrong, but flow mufcular Motion 
clofe together, and are, as it were, fucked back into the Body of the Ani- 
mal: Yet they immediately dart out upon the Return of the Waves; 
but when the Whole is intirely left dry, by the Abfence of the Water, 
this flat circular End, in which the Mouth and Feelers appeared, and 
Uuu which, 
