Part I. 
Of Fifties'. 
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having no Gullet, but their Stomachs Handing juft behind 
their Mouths 5 it often comes to pafs, that while the 
greater purfue the lefler, h xoiA/ix eft to <f/M. , their 
Stomachs come out into their very Mouths. Some re- 
femblance whereof, in a low degree, may be felt by thofe 
that with an eager Appetite firft begin to eat 5 the Gula 
riling up a little as it were to meet the meat half way 5 which, 
upon its retreat, it fucks in after it. Which hath happened 
in fome with that violence, as to have endanger’d their be¬ 
ing choaked. 
'CHAP. IY. 
OF EX A VIOVS FISHES. 
'T'He Rough HORNED-LOBSTER. Given by Dr. Tho- 
J- mas Allen. I call it fo, from the many pointed knobs 
which he hath all over his Back. Squill a Crangone. De¬ 
ferred by Rondeletiws. See alfo the figure hereof in Gefner, 
F 10 99- 
This fifh, inftead of the Plates on the Tail of a common 
Lobfter , hath fo many Fins, which for the far greater part 
of them are naked, or without a Cruft upon them. 
All Lobfiers ufe their Tails, as Fins, wherewith they 
commonly fwim backward by Jirks or Springs ; reaching 
fometimes ten yards at a Spring. For which purpofe, 
whereas the Gill-Fins of other fifhes, which are their Oars, 
are a little Concave backward 5 thefe have the Plates of 
their Tails when they bend them down, as they ufe to do, 
a little Concave forwards. 
Another HORNED-LOBSTER with fmoother Back. 
Thefe fifties are the moftpleafant meat of all the Cruftaci- 
ous kind 5 except perhaps the Punger. 
A CLAW of the GREAT LOBSTER. Aftacus Leo. 
Tis above a foot-long, and a foot and three inches round 
the middle. So that, ratably, the Lobfter it felf mull have 
been about a yard in length. 
TWO more of the fame, a little leffer. 
The CLAW perhaps of a rare fort of CAMARUS, with 
the inner Joynt forked. The 
