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languifhing, and their new fkin foft; at this 

 time they likewife fall a prey to many other 

 animals, and chiefly to different fpecies of the 

 marine polypus. Some authors affert, that the 

 Crab changes its ftomach and inteftines at the 

 fame time with the fkin. 



Genus 



