INDEX. 



543 



Samlet, page 404 

 Sand-eel, vide Launce, 

 Scabbard-fish, four-tootheil, 



210 

 Scad, 363 

 Schelly, 41 9 

 Scombraria, an isle, why so 



called, 358 

 Scorpion, sea, 294 

 Seneca, his account of the 

 luxury of the Romans in 

 respect to fish, 366 

 Serpent, 35 

 Serpext, Aberdeen, 48 



ringed, or snake, 44 

 fragile, 46 

 Shad, 460 



Shakespeare, his fine compa- 

 rison of adversity to a toad- 

 stone, 21 

 Shark, 130 



picked, 133 

 basking, 134 



its vast size, 

 137 

 white, its voracious- 

 ness, 139 

 blue, 143 

 long-tailed, 145 

 spotted, 148 

 lesser-spotted, 150 

 smooth, 151 

 Beaumaris, 154 

 Porbeagle, 152 

 Skate, 111 



its method of engen- 

 dering, 112 



Slow-worm, a harmless ser- 

 pent, page 47 

 Smelt, 4l6 

 Smear-dab, 309 

 Smooth-shan, 280 

 Snail, sea, 179 

 Snake, inoffensive, 45 

 Sole, 311 



Sparling, vide Smelt. 

 Sprat, 457 

 Sperma ceti, what, 81 



whale, vide Ca- 

 chalot. 

 Stickle-back, three-spined, 

 353 



vast shoals in 

 the Wet- 

 land, il. 

 ten - spined, 



355 

 fifteen - spin- 

 ed, 356 

 Sting-ray, its dangerous spine, 



125 

 Sturgeon, 164 

 Sucker, lump, 176 



unctuous, 179 

 Jura, 181 

 bimaculated, 182 

 Montagu, 183 

 Sun-fish, 170 

 Surmullet, the red, 365 



extravagantly priz- 

 ed by the Ro- 

 mans, ib. 

 the striped, 368 

 Sword-fish, 216 



