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pound weight. This fish hath teeth like a sheep, 

 and is therefore so called. 



Plaice are here very large and plentiful, being 

 the same as in England. 



Flounders should have gone amongst the fresh 

 water fish, because they are caught there in great 

 plenty. 



Soles are a fish we have but lately discovered : 

 they are as good as in any other part. 



Mullets the same as in England, and great plen- 

 ty in all places where the water is salt or brackish. 



Shads are a sweet fish, but very bony ; they are 

 very plentiful at some seasons. 



Fat backs are a small fish like mullets, but the 

 fattest ever known. They put nothing into the 

 pan to fry these. They are excellent sweet food. 



The white guard fish is shaped almost like a pike, 

 but slenderer ; his mouth has a long small bill set 

 ^vith teeth, in which he catches small fish ; his 

 scales are knit together like armor. When they 

 dress him they strip him, taking ofi* scales and 

 skin together. His meat is very white, and rath- 

 er looks like flesh than fish. The English account 

 them no good fish, but the Indians do. The gall 

 of this fish is gi-een, and a violent cathartic, if ta- 

 ken inwardly. 



The green guard is shaped, in all respects, like 

 the other, r>avc tliat his scales are very snndl and 

 fine. He is indifierent good meat ; his bones, 

 when Ijuiled or fried, remain as green as grnss. 

 The same sort of lisli come before the mackarel in 

 Entrland. 



