Miscellaneous tracts relating to natural history, husbandry, and physick. To which is added the Calendar of Flora / By Benj. Stillingfleet.

Date:: 1775

Credit: Miscellaneous tracts relating to natural history, husbandry, and physick. To which is added the Calendar of Flora / By Benj. Stillingfleet. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$when upon opening its fbe],l it-expoles itfelf as a prey to the fmalleft kind pf Mies, thefe immediately afiault her, and growing bolder upon finding no re fifth nee venture in. The guard watching its time gives notice by a bite; upon which the pinna doling its fhell, Hints in, kills, and gives part of whatever happens to be there to its companion. . t I X': t The pinna, and the crab together dwell. For mutual fuccour in one common fhell. They both to gain a livelihood combine; Thattakes the prey, when this has given the fi’gn. From hence this crab above his fellows famed, ■ * . ... • .. \, '■ \\ - ' , ■ By antient Greeks was pinno teres named. -4. ' ^ * Gepian. • • ■ . CIV so •; ; ^ • 1 8 a \ r -■ v • ■ sue ni \ ■ • • -jii Deftrudtiom. We have obferved above that all animals do not live upon vegetables, but that there are fome which feed upon certain animalcula. Nay there are fome which fubfift only by ra¬ pine, and daily deftroy numbers of the peace-' able kind. Thefe animals are deftroyed, but In fuch a ' 1 manner$