or HONDUASt.


SeaLobster, or as it is here caUed, the
Craw-fish, is extremely plentiful, and is
much admired for the whiteness and deli-
cacy of its meat. Crabs are alio caught
in great numbers, and are equally esteem-
ed. The Mangrove Oyster, so named
from ilt adhering in clusters to the branch-
es of the tree of the above name, which
incline to the water, is likewie found in
most places, buL is perhaps the most in-
ferior of the species. The Conque, and
the Wilk, are abundant in the neighbour-
hood of the different keys, and afford a
wholesome and nutritious food.
 It is very far from being pretended
that the above should in any shape be
considered other than an extremely limit-
ed enumeration of the inhabitants of this
vast clement, as connected with this part
of the world. The kinds, tberecfoe, that
have been thus briefly noticed, must only
be viewed as being such as raine mnrt fre-
quntlly under familiar observation, and