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particular,) not fo perfei9: as I could willi. As for the 
qualities of this Fjlh, I can lay but little, only I was ai- 
fured by (ome who had boyled, dreft; and eaten of them, 
that they are wholfome iood ; as good at lealt, andtaft 
as well, as Lympotsor Winkles, only the flefli fomething 
harder. 
For what nfe nature hath defigned this Vein of co- 
louring juice, unto the Jnimal, will be difficult to find 
out; perhaps it may be the fpcrmatic and prolifick 
matter, by which they propagate their kind \ which I 
am inclinable to think, from itsconfiftence, virulent and 
fsetid favor. A Microfcope fwhich 1 had not then with 
me) might have given fome light in this matter, and 
confirmed it, if x)\o{q, Animalcula are to be found in it, 
which are in the Mafculine Sperm of Fifli, and other 
living Creatures, ("as fome affirm, from the many late 
experiments they have made.) Or elfe it may be a hu- 
mour in this Animal, which by its Vitall energie, as 
the fpring of life and motion, {upplies the want of heart, 
liver, blood, &c. as in other exlanguineous Animals. 
Thofe who fhall feek after them may find,as I have done, 
fome of thofe P^/r/?/^ Shells, in which are the Camellia 
or rather ^/an, unto which they are more like, and fo 
may miftake ; for thofe little Crabbs or Crawfiflies, I have 
found in moft of our En^lijh Shells, excepting the bi- 
valved, and Patella's ; oi which in many parts, (efpecially 
in the Weft-IndiesJ there are many forts, and fome very 
large J which our Country-men there call the Soldiers-, 
for that, they fay, they enter by force, kill, and take pof- 
feffion of thole houfes they have not built 5 and when 
they grow too big, forfake them, and enter into larger: 
whether that be true, I know not; This I have found, 
when I have broken fome of the Shells in which thofe 
vagrants are, fo as not to bruife their bodies,and then put 
them naked into the water, I have beheld them with 
nimble fpringing- motion, to run to and fro till they 
find 
