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37. Cancer Mar inns } chelis rubr'ts : The red- 
claw’d Crab 
Titanokeratophyton ramofijfimum ; crujia ele- 
gantly tuberculata Thefe forts of Plants are cover’d 
with a (tony calcarious Coat or Bark 5 but the 
Subdance within is lemi-diaphanous, like Horn, and 
when fet on fire, the Smoak fmells exadtly like that 
of Horns or Hoofs of Quadrupeds : And this is 
the mod certain didinguifhmg Mark of all this Tribe 
of Sub- marine Plants called Keratophyta. 
38. Here our Author premifes fome Obfervations 
relating to the Sea-Tortoife in general, as that our 
Sailors corruptly call them Turtle ; he mentions the 
feveral Species of them, and fays that they are mod* 
ly timerous, except in the Time of Coition, when 
they are furious and regardlefs of Danger. They 
ufually continue in Copulation for 14 Days together. 
In April they go on Shoar to lay their Eggs, where- 
of they drop above 100 in one Night into an Hole 
they have made in the Sand above two Feet deep, 
which they fill up again with Sand ; and in three 
Weeks the Eggs are hatch’d by the Heat of the Sun. 
Tefiudo marina vindis : The green Turtle. This 
Sort is fo called from the Colour of its Far, and 
is preferr’d before all the other Kinds, being edeem'd 
a very wholefome and delicious Food. They feed 
on the following Plant ; 
, Alga marina, t gramineo , angufiijjinio folio . Sloane’s 
Nat. Hid. Jam Vol.I. p. 61. Turtle-Grafs : Itgrovvs 
at the Bottom of the Sea in fhallow Water. 
39. Here our Author relates the Methods of 
taking Turtle, which is either by turning them on 
their Backs when they are upon the Sand out of the 
Water, 
