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tender that if they are in or near fresh water, and 

 a sudden frost come, they are benummed, and 

 float on the surface of the water as if dead ; and 

 then they take up canoe loads of them. If you 

 put them into warm water they presently recover. 



The crocus is a fish in shape like a pearch, and 

 in taste like a whiting. They croke and make a 

 noise in your hand when taken with a hook or 

 net. They are very good. 



The herrings in Carolina are not so large as in 

 Europe. They spawn there in March and April, 

 running up the fresh rivers and small fresh runs 

 of water in great shoals where they are taken. 

 They become red if salted ; and drest with vino- 

 gar and oil, resemble an anchovy very much ; for 

 they are far beyond an English Herring when 

 pickled. 



Smelts, the same as in England ; they lie down 

 a great way in the sound towards the ocean, where, 

 at some certain seasons, are a great many very fine 

 ones. 



Breams. The fresh water affords no such breams 

 as in England that I have as yet discovered ; yet 

 there is a sea bream which is a flat and thin fish, 

 as the European breams are. 



The taylor is a fish about the bigness of a trout, 

 but of a bluish and green color with a forked tail, 

 as a mackarel has. They are a delicate fish and 

 plentiful in our salt waters. Infinite numbers of 

 species will be hereafter discovered as yet un- 

 known to us ; although I have seen and eaten of 



