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the Number of their Points or Rays be- 

 ing various. The reticulated Star Fifh, 

 called Medufa's Head^ is very curious 

 the Fifli, when alive and in its natural 

 Element, fpreads abroad a great Number 

 of Fibres, which extend to a lai^e Com- 

 pafs, and in Figure bear no diftant Re- 

 femblance to a Net, being perhaps in- 

 tended for the fame Ufe, to catch its 

 Prey. 



Cruftacea, Under this Title are depo- 

 fited a Variety of Crabs of different 

 Kinds, Colours, and Countries ; fome 

 Lobfters, Sea Locufts, Prawns, Shrimps, 

 the black Crab from Jamaica, and others 

 from the Eafi Indies, finely variegated in 

 Colour J but what really moft demands 

 Regard, is an extraordinary large Claw of 

 a Lobfter. 



Tefiacea, A Number of large Sea 

 Shells, as Helmets Buccina, In the 

 upper Part of this Repofitory is a Log 

 of Wood with a great Number of Bar- 

 nacles flicking to it. It was the Opinion 



of 



