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A. E. Verrill — The Bermuda Islands. 



conditions, as the large rock fish \3F;/cteroperca bonnci, and others], 

 from bis like hewe, and hauntinge among the rockes ; the fatte 

 hogge fish [Lachnolaimus maximus], from his swinedike shape and 



Figure 55. — Hog-fish (Lachnolaimus maximus). 



snoute (for this is not the old knowen [European] hogge fishe with 

 prickles on his back); the delicate amber fish [Seriold], from his 

 taste and smell ; angell fish ; cony fish, the smale yellowe tayle 

 [Ocyurus], from that naturall pointeinge; the great grouper [hamlet 

 grouper, pi. xcv, fig. 2], from his odd and strange grnntinge ; with 

 many other kindes, some of them knowen to the Americans only, as 

 the porguise [porgy], the cavallo, the garrfish ; the rst in common 

 to them with other continents, as they are in parallel with them, as 



Figure 55a. — Amber-fish {Seriola Dumereili), ig. 



the whale, the sharke, the pilote fish, the sea-breame, the oyster 

 [pearl oyster], the lobster [Pan>din<x, pi. xciv] ; and, for the 

 aniphybians, the tortoise [sea-turtles], with divers others tedeous to 

 reherse." 



Most] of the species here named are still called by the same 

 names by the fishermen, both here and in the Bahamas. 



