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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1865. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Sea Bishop, proper to the Norway Seas. [24] River Bleak or Bley, a River Swallow. Sea Bleak or Bley, or Sea Camelion. Blew Fish or Hound Fish, two kinds, speckled Hound FisJi, and Blew Hound Fish called Horse FisJi} Bonito or Dozado, or Spanish Dolphin? River Bream. Sea Bream? Cud Bream. Bullhead or Indian Muscle. River Bulls. Burfish. Burret. Cackarel or Laxe. Calemarie or Sea Clerk. Catfishs Carp. Chare, a Fish proper to the River Wimander in Lancasltire. Sea Chough. Chub or Chevin. Cony Fish. iii. p. 224). The fish is our striped bass (Labrax tineatus,Cuv.] Storer's Report on Fishes of Mass., p. 7). Our author, at p. 37, again mentions it as one of the eight fishes which "the Indians have in greatest request." 1 See p. 96 as to the blue-fish, or horse-mackerel; and Storer, /. c, p. 57. 2 The bonito of our fishermen is the skipjack. -- Storer, I. c, p. 49. 3 See p. 95. 4 See p. 96. Josselyn's character of the fish as food is confirmed by Dr. Storer, /. c.,'p. 69. Clam or Clamp} Sea Cob. Cockes, or Coccles, or Coquil? Cook Ft/k. Rock Cod. Sea Cod or Sea Wkiting? [25] Oæ3, divers kinds, as the Sea Crab, BoatfiJJi, River Crab, Sea Lion, &c. 1 The clam is one of the eight fishes mentioned at p. 37 as most prized by the Indians. "Sickishuog (clams). This is a sweet kind of shell-fish, which all Indians generally over the country, winter and summer, delight in; and, at low water, the women dig for them. This fish, and the natural liquor of it, they boil; and it makes their broth and their nasaump (which is a kind of thickened broth) and their bread seasonable and savoury, instead of salt."-- Williams's Key, &c, I. c. p: 224. "These fishes be in great plenty in most parts of the country: which is a great commodity for the feeding of swine, both in winte...
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