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•several other sorts of fisliwliicli are not here men- 

 tioned, because, as yet, they have no certain names 

 assigned them. Therefore I shall treat no farther 

 of our salt water fish, but proceed to the fresh. 



The first of these is the sturgeon, of which we 

 have plenty, all the fresh parts of our rivers being 

 well stored therewith. The Indians upon and 

 towards the heads and falls of our rivers strike a 

 great many of these and eat them ; yet the Indians 

 near the salt water will not eat them. I have seen 

 an Indian strike one of these fish seven feet long, 

 and leave him on the sands to be eaten by the 

 gulls. In ^lay they run up towards the heads of 

 the rivers, where joii see several hundreds of them 

 in one day. The Indians have another way to 

 take them which is by nets at the end of a pole. 

 The bones of these fish make good nutmeg graters. 



The jack pike or pickerel is exactly the same in 

 Carolina as they are in England. Indeed, I never 

 saw this fish so big and large in America as I have 

 in Europe, these with us being seldom above two 

 feet long, as far as I have yet seen. They are 

 very plentiful with us in Carolina, all our creeks 

 and ponds being full of them. I once took out 

 of a ware above three hundred of these fish at a 

 time. 



Trouts, the same in England as in Carolina; 

 but ours arc a great way up the rivers and brooks, 

 that are fresh, having swift currents and stony and 

 gravelly bottoms. 



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