ABUNDANCE OF FISH ON NEW ENGLAND COAST. 



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Birds are these, viz., above 25 sever 



1. Eagles. 



2. Hawkes, of six or severall 



kinds. 



3. Parteridges, many. 



4. Wilde Turkies, some weighing 



sixtie pound weight. 



5. Eed Birds, that sing rarely. 

 G. Xiiihtin^ales. 



all kinds: 



7. Blue Birds, smaller than a 



8; 



10. 



Wren. 

 Black Birds. 

 Thrushes. 

 Heath Cocks. 



11. 

 12. 

 13. 

 11. 

 15. 

 16. 

 17. 

 18. 

 19. 

 20. 

 21. 

 22 



Swannes. 



Cranes. 



Hemes. 



Geese. 



Brants. 



Ducks. 



Widgeons. 



Dottrells. 



Oxeyes. 



Parrots. 



Pidgeons. 



2. Owles. 



Many more that have no English Xames ; for one called the Mock- 

 bird, that counterfeits all other severall Birds cr^es and tunes. 

 Fish are in these, in their kind, above Thirty sorts. 



Codde. 

 Basse. 



Drumnies, six foot long. 



Sheepshead, this Fish makes 

 broath so likeMutton-broath 

 that the difference is hardly 

 known. 



5. 



Conger. 



6. 



Eeles. 



r- 



Trouts. 



8. 



Mullets. 



9. 



Plaice. 



10. 



Grampus. 



11. 



Porpus. 



12. 



Scates. 



13. 



Sturgeons^ 



11. 



Stingraes.' 



15. 



Brets. 



of 10 foot lono;. 



[ 16. White Salmon. 

 i 17. Soles. 

 I 18. Herring. 



19. Counv-fish. 

 I 20.-Eocke-fish. 



21. Lampres. 



22. Crav-fi^h. 



23. Shads. 

 2^. Perch. 



25. Crabbs. 



26. Shrimj)s. 



27. Crecv-fish. 



28. Oysters. 



29. Cockles. 



30. Mussels. 



31. St. George Fish. 



32. Toad-Fish. 



Trees, above 20 kinds, and man^' no English names. 



9. Plum Trees of manv kinds. 



1. Okes. red & white Wood. 



2. Ashe. 



3. Wall nut, two kinds. 



4. Elmes. 



5. Ceader. 



6. Cypres, three fathomes about. 



7. ]\iulbery Trees, great & good. 



8. Chesnut Trees. 



10. The Puchamine Tree. 



11. The Laurell. 



12. Cherries. 



13. Crahes. 

 11. Yines. 

 15. Sassafras. 



Fruits they have, Strawberies, Gooseberies, Easpices, Maracokos, 

 Puchamines, Muskmillions, Pumpions; And for Fruits brought thither 

 & planted, Aples, Peares, Quinces, xlpricoks, Peaches j & many more 

 kindes excellent good, &c. Pp. 15-18. 



