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sharp Skin, the colour whereof on the Back is black, and on 

 the Belly a light silver grey. They are extreamly well tasted, 

 therefore in great Esteem amongst the Inhabitants. 



The Toad-Fish, or rather the Sea Urchin, because they are 

 nothing but a Skin full of Prickles, and very few Bones. 

 They are as ugly as a Toad, and of no manner of Use only 

 to be preserved and hung up in Grottos to look at. Their 

 manner of swimming is to rowl and tumble round like a Ball. 



The 8ea Tench is of a blackish colour, but exactly in shape 

 like a Tench, except in the back Fins, which are like those of 

 a Perch. They are as good if not better than the fresh-water 

 Tench; they are taken by Angling with Hook and Line as the 

 Drum and Pearch, near the Inlets, or a small distance out at 

 Sea, where they are in great Plenty. 



The Salt-Water Trouts, commonly called the White Trouts, 

 are exactly shaped like the Troids with us, only these have 

 blackish and not Bed Spots. They are in great plenty in the 

 Sounds, near the Inlets, and Salt Waters ; but they are not 

 red within like some Trouts. They are excellent good, but 

 so tender, that if they are in or near the fresh Waters, and a 

 sudden Frost come on, they are so benumb'd, that they float 

 as dead on the surface of the Water, at which Season they 

 take Cannoes full of them, yet notwithstanding they are thus 

 benumb'd they will recover again by the heat of the Sun, or 

 put them into warm Water they will become brisk and lively. 

 They are taken with the Bait, in or near the Salt Waters. 



The Crocus, so called, from the croaking JSToise it makes in 

 ones Hand when it is taken with the Hook and Bait. They 

 are in shape like a Perch, and in taste like a Whitei7ig, and 

 are very plenty. 



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