. The naturalist's library; containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects; . ubstance, in the shape of a intestines consist of one long bowel, which reaches from the mouth tothe vent; but what this animal differs in from all others is, that the spinalmarrow is in the breast bone. It is furnished with long feelers or horns,that issue on each side of the head, that seem to correct the dimness of thesight, and apprize the animal of its danger, or of its prey. The tail, or thatjointed instrument at the other end, is the grand
. The naturalist's library; containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects; . ubstance, in the shape of a intestines consist of one long bowel, which reaches from the mouth tothe vent; but what this animal differs in from all others is, that the spinalmarrow is in the breast bone. It is furnished with long feelers or horns,that issue on each side of the head, that seem to correct the dimness of thesight, and apprize the animal of its danger, or of its prey. The tail, or thatjointed instrument at the other end, is the grand instrument of motion;and with this it can raise itself in the water. Under this, we usually seelodged the spawn in great abundance; every pea adhering to the next by avery fine filament, which is scarcely perceivable. Every lobster is an her-maphrodite, and is supposed to be self-impregnated. The ovary, or placewhere the spawn is first produced, is backwards, towards the tail, where ared substance is always found, and which is nothing but a cluster of peas,that are yet too small for exclusion. From this receptacle there go two. canals, that open on each side at the jointures of the shell, at the belly; andthrough these passages the peas descend to be excluded, and placed underthe tail, where the animal preserves them from danger for some time, untilthey come to maturity. They are then dropped in the sand, where they aresoon hatched. Between twelve and thirteen thousand eggs have been count-ed in one lobster. When the young lobsters are produced, they immediately seek for refugein the smallest clefts of rocks, and in such like crevices at the bottom of thesea, where the entrance is but small, and the opening can be easily defend-ed. There, without seeming to take any food, they grow larger in a fewweeks time, from the mere accidental substances which the water Avashesto their retreats. By this time, also, they acquire a hard, firm shell, whichfurnishes them with both offensive
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