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Clams are a sort of cockles, only differing in 

 sliell, wliich is thicker and not streaked, or rib- 

 bed. These are found thronghout all the sound 

 and salt water ponds. The meat is the same for 

 look and taste as the cockle. These make an ex- 

 cellent strong broth, and eat well, either roasted 

 or pickled. 



The muscles in Carolina have a very large shell, 

 striped with dents. Thej grow by the side of 

 ponds and creeks, in salt water, wherein you 

 may get as many of them as you please. I do not 

 like them so well as the English muscle, which is 

 no good shell fish. 



Conks. — Some of the shells of these fish are as 

 large as a man's hand, but the lesser sort are the 

 best meat, and those not extraordinary. They 

 are shaped like the end of a horsesyard. Of their 

 shells, the peak, or wampum is made, which is the 

 richest commodity amongst the Indians. They 

 breed like a long thing shaped like a snake, but 

 containing a sort of joints, in the hollowness 

 whereof are thousands of small coaks, no biocsrer 

 than small grains of pepper. 



The skellops, if well dressed, are a pretty shell 

 fish; but to eat them only roasted, without any 

 other addition, in ni}^ judgment, are too luscious. 

 Man of noses are a shell fish commonly found 

 amongst us. They are valued for increasing vig- 

 or in men and making barren women fruitful ; but 

 I think they have no need of that fish, for the wo- 

 men in Carolina are fruitful enough without 

 ' their help. 



