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The Natural Fiflory of the Book IX. 
Lhe Dominico-LossTER. 
Gh Lobfter feldom weighs more than about two Pounds. 
The Rep LoBsTER. 
pus is the largeft Lobfter that we have in this Seas for it often 
_ weighs twenty Pounds; its Colour as above ; but the larger it is in 
Bulk, the lefs delicious it is. ; 
The GREEN LopsTer. 
f | ‘HIS derives its Name partly from its Colour ; and generally weighs, 
when full-grown, between three and four Pounds. 
Its two largeft Horns, or Feelers, are about eighteen Inches long: 
From between thefe come two leffer ones, forked or divided near their 
Extremities. ci os 
_ The Eyes are guarded by two fharp-pointed crooked Horns. 
The Extremities of the Feet are hairy; and the Shell upon the Back, 
efpecially about the Roots of the great Feclers, is very thickly ftudded — 
with fharp Prickles. ; oe 
.. . The QuEEN or the Bonne-Grace LogsTer. 
og fet largeft of this Sort never weigh above two Pounds. 
4 This is juftly efteemed one of the beft of the Lobfter Kind. 
poo <5: GARE The Lazy Cras. eae a 
‘ap FIIS ds a very large beautiful Crab. HS cd 
The Back ‘is generally full of {mall Knobs of a: pale-fcarlet Co- 
- dour ;. guarded here and there, but efpecially’ about the Edges of the 
‘Back-Shell, .with fhort fharp Prickles. 
It hath four ftrong: Legs ona Side; thefe are covered over with a 
fhort brownifh Hair or Pile, andvare likewife, in the Male Crab, defended 
with Prickles, the laft Joint:of each Leg ending in a fharp Point. 
Its two great Claws, from the Setting-on to the Body to their Extremi- 
ties, are often ten Incheslong, 9 > 
The very Tips of the two meeting Claws, with which it holds its Prey, 
remarkably differ from all other.Crabs, by their great Breadth, as well as 
by their feveral regular Indentings, which, when they clofe together, fall 
as regularly into their Sockets as the oppofite Sides of a Pair of Nippers. 
A Claw of one of thefe uncommon Crabs may be {een in the Colleétion 
of Mr. Peter Collinfon. sialaepele 
_ The Whole is delineated in Plate XXV. Fig. r. 
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