Louje of the Carp . 375 
junft taken out of the Canal in St. James s 
Park, It was about one Tenth of an Inch 
long, and nearly as much in Breadth at the 
broadefl Place. Its Back was covered with 
a Shell, (or rather pliable Scale) of the f i¬ 
gure reprefented in the Drawing: this Shell 
was fo extremely tranfparent, that the finny 
Legs, of which it has four Pair, belides two 
fhorter Claws, might be feen almofic as 
clearly through itas if they had no Covering ; 
and on each Side the Body of the Animal, 
at equal Diftances therefrom, were many cu¬ 
rious and beautiful Ramifications, fomewhat 
opake, extending a confiderable Length, and 
feeming either to be Blood-Veffels, or muf- 
cular Proceffes connecting the Body with the 
Shell. 
The Tail was a Kind of fcaly double Fin, 
notunlike thofe at the Extremity of a Lob- 
fter’s Tail, but exceedingly tranfparent, and 
each Half or Fin was marked with one fingle 
black Spot, as in the Plate. 
The Eyes (which for the Sake of fhewing 
them to more Advantage are greatly magni¬ 
fied at Jig. K. i. i.) were very lingular ifi 
their Structure, being'neither fmooth fingle. 
Balls, like thofe of molt Quadrupeds, Birds 
and Fifties; nor pearled Balls like the Eyes 
of many InfeCts,; but in this Animal each 
Eye was compofed of a globular Body, almoft 
incircled round with fmaller Globules, as the 
Drawing reprefents.. 
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