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At New- York, there are salmon, cod-fish, 

 lobsters, clams (by some called cockles), &c. 

 but not in plenty. Cod when brought to 

 Baltimore, generally sold at half a dollar per 

 pound. I am told there are shrimps and 

 prawns. These, which must be termed salt- 

 water fish, extend, in general, not further to 

 the south of America than Philadelphia: and 

 so scarce are they there, except the cod, that 

 I have heard two of the inhabitants disagree 

 about the shape and size of them : the peo- 

 ple of New-York, too, are so far from hav- 

 ing a great plenty of them, that they are not 

 able to give any account of the flavour of a 

 shrimp or prawn. I am of opinion that few 

 Americans ever saw either : for I have been 

 in company when two gentlemen have dis- 

 puted, whether they were really the one or 

 the other. Some say they resemble our 

 cray-fish, or the river-lobster. Those who 

 maintain that opinion have been in England, 

 and have seen our shrimps and prawns. In 

 the number of fishes, I would wish the 

 reader to observe that I never saw the 



