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The Smelts, are the same here as I have observed in several 

 parts of Europe. They are about eight or nine Inches long, 

 and one broad ; they smell like Violets, and are of the finest, 

 lightest, softest, and best Juice, of most other Fish, especially 

 in the Winter^ and when full of Spawn. They lye down a 

 great way in the Sound towards the Ocean, where they are 

 very plenty, and vast numbers of them are taken at certain 

 Seasons of the Year. 



The Sea-Bream is thin, broad, and flat, exactly resembling 

 our Fresh-water Bream; though there hath not been any such 

 Fish discovered yet in the fresh Waters of Carolina, that I 

 could ever learn. Their Flesh is white and solid, of good 

 Juice and ^N'ourishment, and easy of Digestion. They are 

 very plenty in the Sound and Salt-Water. 



The Taylor is about the bigness of a middling Trout, but 

 of a blueish and green Colour, with a forked Tail like a 

 Macharel. They are excellent fine and delicious, Fishes, 

 very plenty in the salt and brackish Waters, where they are 

 caught with the Bait. 



The Herrings are not quite so large as those with us in 

 Ireland, and other parts of Europe. They come in such great 

 Shoals to Spawn in the Months of March and April, that I 

 have seen the Christian Inhabitants catch as many Barrels 

 full as they pleased, or as long as their Salt lasted to preserve 

 them, with Sieves and Shovels, instead of jSTets; for at that 

 Season they run up the Creeks and small Rivulets of Water 

 in such N^umbers, that the Bears take them out of the Water, 

 as I have observed elsewhere. When they are fresh their 

 Flesh is very white and more delicious than the Herrhig with 

 us in Europe, but when they are Salted they become red, and 

 if drest with Oil and Vinegar resemble an Anchovy very 



Gg 2 much. 



