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Shelldrakes, the same as in England. 



The bald, or white faces are a good fowl. They 

 cannot dive and are easily shotten. 



Water witch, or ware coots, are a fowl with down 

 and no feathers ; they dive incomparably, so that 

 no fowler can hit them. They can neither fly nor 

 go ; but get into the fish wares and cannot fly 

 over the roads, and so are taken. 



Thus have we given an account of what fowl 

 has come to our knowledge, since our abode in 

 Carolina, except some that, perhaps, have slipt 

 our memory, and so are left out of our catalogue. 

 Proceed we now to treat of the inhabitants of the 

 watry element, which though we can as yet do 

 but very imperfectly ; yet we are willing to oblige 

 the curious with the best account that is in our 

 power to present them withal. 



THE FISH IN THE SALT, AND FRESH WATERS OF 

 CAROLINA ARE, 



"Whales, several sorts. 



Thrashers. 



Divel fish. 



Sword fish. 



Crampois. 



Bottle noses. 



Porpoises. 



Sharks, two sorts. 



Dog fish. 



Spanish Mackarel. 



Cavallies. 



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