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perishes there in a short time, and which inhabits univalve 
terrestrial shells. These last being more rare than the 
marine shells, the animal does not enjoy the same advantages 
as the sea-paguri. It is not always in its power to choose, and 
its habitation is less convenient. This fact corroborates the 
reflections made above on the passage quoted from Olivier. 
Mange, who visited some of the Antilles, and who collected 
there a great number of animals, informed M. Latreille, that he 
found land paguri escape him, at the moment in which he 
was about to seize them, by rolling with their shells from the 
top of the rocks, or of elevated places, to the bottom. This 
species is probably identical with that of Pere Nicholson. 
According to M. Bose, there is in the islands of America a 
very large pagurus, which lives habitually on land, and which 
only goes to the sea to lay its eggs, and afterwards seeks a new 
shell, with which it returns into the mountains and the woods, 
where it habitually resides. When it is taken, it utters a 
little cry, and endeavours to pinch the hands. The inhabit- 
ants eat it, and derive from its body a yellowish oil, which 
they esteem a sovereign remedy in rheumatic cases. The 
shell of the same animal yields them, through the medium of 
fire, about half a table spoonful of clear water, which these 
people consider as an excellent cure for the pustules produced 
upon the skin by the juice of the mancenilla. 
It is believed that the paguri issue forth pretty generally 
from their shells when they proceed in search of their prey. 
But may they not secure it without employing such a method, 
and are not their claws, as well as their other front feet, suffi- 
cient for this purpose? It appears more certain that they 
quit their houses at the period of their amours, otherwise it 
would be impossible to explain, according to the position of 
the sexual organs, how these animals could have intercourse. 
The authors, such as Aristotle, Belon, Ulloa, &c. who have 
asserted that they issue from their shells to seek their subsis- 
