»' LOBSTERS. Class V. 



c are not faleable to the carriers, though, in reality, 

 1 they are in the fummer months fuperior to the 

 ' large ones in goodnefs, The pincers of one of 



* the lobders large claws are furnrfhed with 



* knobs, and thofe of the other claw are always 



* ferrated. With the former it keeps firm hold of 

 1 the (talks of fubmarine plants, and with the 

 s latter it cuts and minces its food very dextroufly. 

 L The knobbed or numb claw, as the Fifhermen 

 4 call it, is fometimes on the right and fometimes 

 ' on the left, indifferently. It is more dangerous 

 & to be feized by them with the cutting claw than 

 1 the other •, but in either cafe, the quickeft way 

 8 to get di fen gaged from the creature is to pluck 

 4 oil its claw. It feems peculiar to the Lobfter 

 6 and Crab, when their claws are pulled off, that 



* they will grow again, but never fe large as at 



* firft. 



8 The Female or Hen Lobfter does not caft 



* h^r fhell the fame year that me depofits her ova> 

 ■ or, in the common phrafe, is in berry. When 

 ; the ova firft appear under her tail, they are very 



* fmall and extremely black-, but they become in 



* fucceffion almoft as large as ripe elder-berries 

 4 before they be depofited, and turn of a dark 

 1 brown color, efpecially towards the end of the 

 4 time of her depofiring them. They continue full 

 1 and depofiting the ova in conftant iuccefuon, as 

 1 long as any of that black fubftance can be found 



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