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conditions, as the large rock fish | Mycteroperca bonaci, and others], 
from his like hewe, and hauntinge among the rockes; the fatte 
hogge fish [Lachnolaimus maximus], from his swine-like shape and 
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snoute (for this is not the old knowen [European] hogge fishe with 
prickles on his back); the delicate amber fish [Seréola], from his 
taste and smell; angell fish; cony fish, the smale yellowe tayle 
[ Ocyurus|, from that naturall pointeinge; the great grouper [hamlet 
grouper, pl. xcv, fig. 2], from his odd and strange gruntinge ; with 
many other kindes, some of them knowen to the Americans only, as 
the porguise [porgy], the cavallo, the garrfish ; the rst In common 
to them with other continents, as they are in parallel with them, as 
Figure 55a.—Amber-fish (Seriola Dumereili), V4. 
the whale, the sharke, the pilote fish, the sea-breame, the oyster 
[pearl oyster], the lobster [Panulirus, pl. xciv|; and, for the 
amphybians, the tortoise [sea-turtles], with divers others tedeous to 
reherse.” 
Most of the species here named are still called by the same 
names by the fishermen, both here and in the Bahamas. 
