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any body unacquainted with thefe things, to believe it a part of the animal 5 when it 
pieales, it can draw in the whole body, and it then continues to flop up the opening 
of the (hell with the larger claw, and lies retired from mifchief. 
It is common in our Teas; the oyftermen at Feverfham dredge up great numbers of 
it: authors call it Cancellus 5 and Bernhardus, Eremita ; we, frequently, Bernard the 
hermit. 
Squilla macroura rojlrofupra ferrato 3 bafi utrinque dente 
fimplici . 
The long-tailed Squilla , with the fnout fer rated above , and 
with a fmgle denticulation at the bafe . 
This greatly approaches to the figure of the common lobfter : it’s length, with us, 
when well grown, is about three inches and a half: it’s body, about three quarters of 
an inch in diameter j but, in fome other countries, it grows vaftly larger, though the 
fpecies be evidently the fame : it’s fhell, or covering, is firm and ftrong : it’s legs long 
and {lender ; and it’s tail thick. 
It is a native of frefh waters, particularly of our clear brooks: authors call it Aftacus 
fluviatilis ; Matthiolus and Bellonius, Gammarus. 
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Squilla brachyura corpore verrucofo aculeato . 
The floort-tailed Squilla , with a warty and prickly body. 
%%t mm 
crab* 
This grows to the ordinary fize of the common crab : it’s body, however, is always 
fmaller, in proportion to it’s legs and claws, than in that: the fliell is hard ; the colour 
whitifh, with fome admixture of brown, of red, and of black: the body is covered 
with large, rough, and irregular wart-like protuberances, and the legs, all over, except 
the tips of the claws, are covered with larger protuberances, which terminate in points, 
forming a kind of fhort and very robuft fpines. 
It is a native of theEaft and Weft Indian feas, and is caught alfo about fome of the 
fhores of Europe ; authors call it Cancer verrucofus. 
Squilla brachyura cruribm longifftmis. 
The long-legged , Jhort-tailed Squilla . 
%l)t £>pftser=ctab. 
This is a very fmall fpecies: the body is of an oval figure, and covered with oblong, 
but not very numerous, fpines: the legs are very flender, and like thofe of a fpider, and 
are equal to five times the diameter of the body in length : they terminate in long. 
Fender, and fharp points; and the claws of the anterior ones are no thicker than the 
points of the others, only double. 
It is a native of the Eaft Indies, and many other places: authors call it Cancer 
arachnoides. 
Squilla clypeata. %\)t fi0OlllCCa=Cta!3 5 0? 
The buckler Squilla . 
This is the moft fingular animal of all this genus: it’s body is covered with a hard 
and firm fhell of a dufky brownifh colour, and of a figure approaching to oval, but 
truncated at the lower end : it is compofed, as it were, of two parts; the edge of the 
upper is fmooth and even ; that of the under, fpinofe : the body of the animal is fmall, 
in proportion to this immenfity of fliell, and the legs are fhort: the tail is inferted in 
the center of the truncated part of the fhell, and is very long, flender, and pointed at 
the end. 
It is a native of the feas, about the Molucca’s : authors thence call it Cancer 
Moluccenfis. 
The other fpecies of this genus are numerous; they may be conveniently arranged 
under three fubdivifions. i. The fmaller long-tailed Squillae, which are the fhrimp 
kind. 2. The larger long-tailed Squills, which are the lobfter and cray-fifh kind, 3. 
The fhort-tailed, or crab kind. 
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