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The hairy crab (cancer setosus) is of the size of the 

 preceding, and is entirely cloathed with rough hair 

 iike bristles ; the back shell is in the shape of a heart, 

 and covered with protuberances. The beak is di- 

 vided and reverted, and furnished with a great num- 

 ber of hairs. 



The santolla (cancer santolla) surpasses all the 

 others in its size, and the delicacy of its taste. Its 

 shell is orbicular, convex, and of a coriaceous con- 

 sistence ; it is covered with large spines, which are 

 easily detached when it is roasted, and the claws are 

 very long and large, and covered with a wrinkled 

 skin. 



The crowned crab (cancer coronatus) is furnished 

 with a shell nearly oval, of about four inches and a half 

 in diameter, with an excrescence in the centre re- 

 presenting a mural crown. 



Crawfish are no less abundant on the Chilian coast. 

 Lord Anson mentions having caught them at Juan 

 Fernandez of eight and nine pounds weight, that 

 were of an excellent flavour. Lobsters are also found 

 in such quantities on the same island, that the fisher- 

 men have no other trouble to take them, than to 

 strew a little meat upon the shore, and when they 

 come to devour this bait, as they do in immense 

 numbers, to turn them on their backs with a stick. 

 By this simple method, many thousands are taken 

 manually, and the tails, which are in high estimation^ 

 dried and sent to Chili. 



Of the fresh water crabs, the most rems^rkable is 

 that called the mason (cancer cementarius). It is 

 about eight inches long, of a brown colour striped 



