144 _ PIKE. 



Thou art to us a rod and a fcourge. 



Thou art a harlot pretending to fly. 



In order to draw the unwary youth away with her out of town ; 



They run after her like the wanton he-goats after the females*. 



They feed on the fmall crabs, and on conferva, which grow on the 



fhores. In Greenland they fpawn in May, June, and July, and depofit 



', the eggs on the fea plants : millions in that feafon follow the windings 



of the bays : the females go firft; the males follow, to give efFeftto the 



fpawn : the bottom of the fea feems covered with it. 



They are taken in vaft quantities in Newfoundland : they are fome- 

 times preferved in barrels : often kept in brine, or half faked, for baits 

 for the fifheryj-. 



The firft voyager who takes notice of them is Majler Anthony Park- 

 hurji, who vifited that iHand in 15':' 8, and gives a very facetious 

 account to his fhipmates of his art in charming thefe, and another 

 fifh he calls a Squid, into his power. I refer to Mr. Hackluyt, vol. iii. 

 133, for the account. - 



-XXXVil. PIKE. Br. Zool. iii. p. 320. Genus XXXIV. 



c r^ Br. Zool. iii. N" 153. 



176. Common. jj _ 



Jlace. F ^ ^ Q-^ E N T in all the lakes from Hudfon's Bay to Carolina. - 



Many of thefe fifh are taken in the Baltic fea,, and reckoned 

 far more delicious than thofe of the lakes J, 



* Fontoppidan, ii. 133. f 2)« Hamel, ii, 151. % Prof. Retaius, 



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