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Which, ill some phices, are often cast up; I have scene some of them, 

 but not above sixtie foot loiii;'; The Natives cut them out in severell 

 parc(»lls, and give and sende farre and neere for an acceptable present 

 or dish. 



Ashaunt-teans;. Lobsters. 



Opponciiaubook. Oysters. 



Sickissuog. Clams. [Soft clam. Mya avcnaria.'] 



Obs: Tliis is a sweet kind of shellfish, which all Indians generally 

 over the Country, Winter aud Suuimer, delight in ; and at low water the 

 w^omen dig for them. This fish, and the naturall liquors of it, they 

 boile, and it makes their broth and their nassaiimp (which is a kind of 

 thickened broth) and their bread seasonable aud savoury, instead of Salt: 

 and for that the English Swine dig and root these Clams wheresoever 

 they come, and watch the low water (as the Indian women do) there- 

 fore of all the English Cattell, the Swine (as also because of their filthy 

 disposition) are most hateful to all Natives, and they call them hlthy cut- 

 throats, »&c. 



Sequimock. Poqnai'iliock. A Horse-fish. [Hard clam; quobog. Teniis 



merceiiaria.'] 



Obs: This the English call Hens, a little thick shell fish, which the 

 Indians wade deepe and dive for, and after they have eaten the meat 

 there (in those which are good) they breake out of the shell, about half 

 an inch of a blacke part of it, of which they make their Luckaiihock, or 

 black money, which is to them precious. 



Meteaubock. Tbe Periwiuckle. [Probably FtjniJa, (Ham- 



mond.)] 



Of which they make their Wonipam, or white money, of halfe the value 

 of their SiicMichock or black money, of which more in the Chapter of 

 their Coyne. 



Moamitteaug. A little sort of fisb, balfe as big as Sprats, 



X»leiitifull iu Winter. [Murmcbogs or cy- 

 pronodonts.J 



Paponaumsuog. A winter tisb. [Tom cod.] 



Which comes up iu the brookes and rivulets; some call them Frost 

 fish, from their comming up from the Sea into fresh brookes, in ti nes of 

 frost aud snow. 



Qiuujsuog. A fresh fish. [The pickerel.] 



which the Indians break the ice in fresh ponds, when they take also 

 many other sorts: for, to my knowledge, the Country yeelds mau\ sorts 

 of other fish, which I mention not. 



On some early notices of J^etv England fishes. By J. Hammond Trnnhull. 



Hartford, Connecticut, December 30, 1871. 

 Uy Dear Sir ;***** 

 As to Williams's tantauog, the fact that the Indian name comes down 

 to us associated alwaj^s with the " blackfish " or tautog, and nowhere 

 with the Sargus ovis, convinces me that the former was the " Sheeps- 



