Class V. 



LOBSTERS. 



Cylindric body. 

 Long antenna. 

 Long tail 



JSTJCUS. 

 LOBS lER, 



Cancer. Lht. Syft. 1050. No. 

 Aftacirs. Rondel. 538. 



Gammarus. 

 2 1. Vulgar, 



L.TY7ITH a fmooth thorax; (hort ferrated 

 V V fnout •, very long antenna ; and between 

 them two fhorter, bifid ; claws and fangs, large, 

 the greater tuberculated, the lerTer ferrated on the 

 inner edge ; four pair of legs ; fix joints in the 

 tail ; caudal fins rounded. 



Inhabits all the rocky mores of our ifland ; but 

 chiefly where there is a depth of water. In Llyn y 

 in Caernarvon/hire, a certain fin all lobfter, nothing 

 different except in fize, burrows in the fand. 



Brought in vaft quantities from the Orkney ifles, 

 and many parts of the eaftern coaft of Scotland, to 

 the London markets. Sixty or feventy thoufand 

 are annually brought, in well-boats, from the 

 neighborhood of Montrofe alone *. 



Lobfters fear thunder ; and are apt to ca/l their 

 claws on a great clap. I am told they will do the 

 fame on firing a great gun; and that when men of 



Tour in Scotland, 1772, part. n. p. 146. 



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