K ATURAL HISTORY of NORfVA T. r 6i 



CHAPTER Vir. 



Concerning exfanguious Fifli, or thofe without blood ; which are 

 either inclofed in a fhell, or are naked and defencelefs. 



Sect. I. Their general divifion. Sect. II. Of Oyfters, Top-Oyfters, and thofi 

 with a large Jhell, long Jh ell, or Jhort Jhell. Sect. III. Mufcles, Pearl- 

 Mufcles -, and fome account of the Tearl-fijhery in Norway. Sect. IV. 

 Cockles of various forts. Sect. V. IgeUkier, and Sea Hedge-hog. Sect. 

 VI. Lobflers, and their advantageous fijhery in this country. Sect. VII. 

 Craw-fijh, Crabs, and Shrimps. Sect. VIII. Blek-fprute, various kind of 

 Crofs-fjh, or Star-fijh, Manate, and Perle-Baand. 



SECT. I. 



TTITHERTO I have treated of fuch Sea-animals, caught 

 ■*- ■*■ about the coafts of Norway, as are properly called Fifh ; 

 thefe have bones, or cartilaginous fubftance, and blood in them. 

 I now come to certain kinds, which are very different, and by 

 Ariftotle, Lib. i. Hift. c. iv. and Lib. iv. cap i. are divided into Difference 

 four kinds of Animalia exfanguia ; namely, the Soft kind, the and divifi0n * 

 Cruftaceous, the Teftaceous, and the Infe<3s. Pliny makes but 

 three claffes of them, when he fays, Lib. ix. c. 28, " Pifcium 

 quidam fanguine carent, de quibus dicemus. Sunt autem tria 

 genera. Imprimis quae mollia appellantur, dein conte&a cruftis 

 tenuibus, poftremo teftis conclufa duris " I fhall adopt this lafl: 

 method of claffing thefe kinds, only inverting the order with 

 refpeQ to their form and ufe. 



Firft, therefore, I fhall fpeak of the teftaceous kind, or thofe 

 that are confined in hard fhells, in which they live as it were in a 

 houfe ; fuch are Oyfters, Mufcles and Cockles. I mall after thefe 

 treat of the cruftaceouskind, that is, thofe which are furrounded 

 with a thin fhell, that is fhaped like, and juftly adapted to, their 

 bodies .^ of this fort are the Lobfter, the Craw-fifh, the Crab, 

 the Shrimp, and the Sea Hedge-hog. In the third place I fhall 

 defcribe the naked, or foft and defencelefs fort : fuch are the Scuttle- 

 fifh, various kinds of Star-fifh, and other curious fpecies, to be 

 nam'd in their order. If thefe kinds were very numerous, I fhould 

 treat of them alphabetically, as I have done in the preceding 

 chapters, in defcribing other fpecies : but as the difference in thefe 

 is much more perceptible, and the bounds I have prefcribed 



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