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The MOLUCCA-CRAB. Cancer Molucenfis. The beft 
figure hereof is given by Bejler , who alone fhews the 
Eyes 5 yet not fo clearly as could be wifhed. Not ill de- 
fenbed by Job. de Laet. That which Clufius makes to be 
the fore part, he makes the hinder: and Wormius doth the 
like 5 and faith, it is plain, from the pofition of the Legs; 
With both whom I agree. And to what Wormius faith, I 
alfo add, the pofition of the Eyes 5 for from Clufius s 
Defcription, it would follow, that they flood in the hinder 
part of the Crab. Here are eight or nine of them; the entire!! 
and largelf, given by Henry Whiftler Efq;. 
The Eye of this Crab , hath a horny Cover. But Hands 
almoft flat, or in the fame plain with the reft of the fhell. 
Tis pleafant to look on, being latticed like the Eye of a 
Butterfly. The latticed-work is difcernable to a naked Eye, 
but much better through a Glafs. 
Laet^i t The People ( a ) that live near the River Cbovacod in 
a£t ‘ ,2 ’ Nova Francia , pile their Shafts with the Tails of this Crab, 
which breeds there abundantly. 
The CLAW of thePUNGER, or the VELVET-CRAB, 
called Pagurus. It is one of the biggeft fort 3 and the beft 
meat of any. Linfcboten reports. That feme (but he frith 
not of what kind) 111 India, have been found fo big, that 
whenfoever they got any man with in their Claws, it coft 
him his life. 
The PRICKLED-CRAB. Hippocarcinus , or Cancer afper, 
becaufe of the Spikes that grow upon his Back. They breed 
near Norway. 
Another with a great number of Center-fhells growing 
upon its Back. 
t b) De Part. It is noted by Ariflotle, ( b ) That all Lobflers and Crabs 
Amm.hb. 4. } iave t j lc j r }{,g] ir Claw, the greater and ftronger. Crabs 
(c) ibid, have no Tail, nor need it, faith the fame Author, (c) as 
Lobflers do to fwim with 3 becaufc they live much upon 
the Land. 
CRABS-EYES. Oculi Cancrorum. hCruftaceows-flone fo 
called, growing as is commonly (but I doubt falfly) find, in 
(d) Muf. River Crabs. Efpecially,faith Cerutus, [d] in the Female, at 
shr” 1 that time, when the new fhell begins to grow. 
Both the Powder and the Alagiftery of Crabs-Eyes 3 and 
the Claws, and Diftilled-Water of Crabs, are all ufed in 
Medicine. The 
