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Firft, The Polypus, particularly fo called, the Oc- 
topus, Preke, or Pour-contrel : to which kind our 
fubjedt belongs. 
i Secondly 9 The Sepia, or Cuttle-ftfh. 
‘ Thirdly , The Loligo, or Calamary. And each of 
thefe has its different fpecies and varieties*. The an- 
cients add the Nautilus ; and fome forts of Star-fifli 
might perhaps be not improperly ranged among them. 
All of the fir ft kind have eight arms, placed at 
equal diftances round the head j below the arms are 
two eyes, and the body is fhort and thick. 
The Cuttle-fifti, and the Calamary, have each of 
them ten arms* of which eight are fhorter ones, ta- 
pering gradually to a point from the head, where they 
all rife, to their extremities : the other two (frequent- 
ly called Tentacula) are three or four times as long, 
perfectly round, flender, and of an equal thicknefs 
for above two thirds of their whole length ; then 
fpreading into a form nearly like that of the fhorter 
arms. Great numbers of acetabula , or fuckers, are 
placed fomewhat irregularly on each of the fhorter 
arms, and on the fpreading parts of the Tentacula, 
where fome of the fuckers are a great deal larger than 
the reft. 
The body of the Cuttle-fifh is broad and flat, ha- 
vino; within it a broad friable white bone ; that of the 
Calamary is a fort of cartilaginous cafe holding the 
inteftines, of a roundifh oblong fhape, furnifhed with 
two fins, and having within it a thin tranfparent elaf- 
tic fubftance like Ifinglafs. 
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* Vide Wilkinses real Charafter, p. 131. Bellon. p. 330. 
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