InfeB 'With Net-like Arms. %6g 
the Animal whatever was taken in them 
proper for its Food. When the Creature 
did not employ its Nets, it thruft out a Pair 
of fharp-pointed Horns for its Defence, as 
is (hewn at N 9 ix, where a larger Figure of 
the Head and Claws is given, the Diameter 
being there magnified twenty Times, and the 
Area 400. 
Thefe curious Animals were all dead in 
48 Hours, notwithftanding frefh Water was 
given them feveral Times ; which then pre¬ 
vented any Opportunity of learning more 
concerning them, and made my Friend ima¬ 
gine they might be amphibious Creatures, 
tho’ he found them in Water j or might pof- 
fibly undergo iome Change in Form, or Way 
of living, the Difcovery whereof he hoped 
for atTome other Seafon. 
Fie fearched for them after this in the 
fame Place feveral Times, but without be¬ 
ing able to find any of them, which occa¬ 
sioned him to conclude, they had either put 
on another Form, or removed themfelves to 
fome other Parts of the Water. However 
he had met with no Opportunity of looking 
there for them, at or about the Seafon when 
he had ffrft obferved them, hill the Year 
1749, when happening to be near the Caf- 
cades on the 2ifl of May, he determined to 
try his Luck once more, and then found, 
with little Trouble, many of the very fame 
Animals, in the moft rapid Part of the Caf- 
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