09S AVOYAGETO 



1778. alfo frequent the Sound. They are of the common forts j 

 April. '■ ^ _ 



the fliags being our cormorant or water-crow. We faw two 



forts of wild-ducks ; one black, witli a white head, which 



were in confiderable flocks ; the other white, with a red bill, 



but of a larger fize ; and the greater lunwie, or diver, found' 



in our northern countries. There were alfo feen, once or 



twice, fome fwans flying acrofs the Sound to the Northward y 



but we knew nothing of their haunts. On the fliores, be- 



fides the fand -piper, defcribed above, we found another, 



about the fize of a lark, which bears a great affinity to the 



burre ; and a plover difl?ering very little from our common 



fca-lark. 



Fifh are more plentiful in quantity than birds, though 

 the variety is not very great ; and yet, from feveral circum- 

 llances, it is probable, that even the variety is confiderably 

 increafed at certain feafons. The principal forts, which we 

 found in great numbers, are the common herring, but 

 fcarcely exceeding feven inches in length ; a fmaller fort, 

 ■which is the fame with the anchovy, or fardine, though 

 rather larger ; a white, or filver-coloured bream, and an- 

 other of a gold-brown colour, with many narrow longitu- 

 dinal blue fl:ripes. The herrings and fardines, doubtlefs, 

 come in large flioals, and only at ftated feafons, as is com- 

 mon with that fort of fifh. The bream, of both forts, may 

 be reckoned the next to thefe in quantity ; and the full 

 grown ones weighed, at leaft, a pound. The other fifli, 

 which arc all fcarce, are a fmall brown kind of /c?///)/«, fuch 

 as is found on the coaft of Norway ; another of a brownifli 

 red caft -, froft-fifli ; a large one, fomewhat refembling the 

 bull-head, with a tough fkin, dcflitute of fcales ; and now 

 and then, toward the time of our leaving the Sound, the 

 natives brought a fmall brownifli cod, fpottcd with white ; 



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