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crossed out] tast & shape a smelt & perhaps are butt the 

 yonger sort thereof. 



[Fol. 29.] Aselli or cods of seuerall sorts. Asellus 

 albus or whitings in great plentie. Asellus niger 

 carbonarius or [col crossed out\ coale fish. Asellus 

 minor Schoneueldei callarias pliny or Haydocks with 

 many more also a weed fish somewhat like an haydock 

 butt larger & dryer meat. A Basse also much 

 resembling a flatter kind of Cod." 



Scombri are makerells" in greate plentie a dish much 

 desired butt if as Rondeletius affirmeth they feed upon 

 sea starres & squalders {see Note 90) there may bee some 

 doubt whether their flesh bee without some ill qualitie 

 sometimes they are of a very large size & one was taken 

 this yeare 1668 wch was by measure an ell long and of 

 ye length of a good salmon, at Lestoffe. 



Herrings departed sprats or sardae not long after 

 succeed in great plentie wch are taken with smaller 

 nets [& dryed crossed out] & smoakd & dryed like 

 herrings become a [daint crossed out] sapid bitt & 

 vendible abroad. 



Among these are found Bleakes or bliccae'^ a thinne 

 herring like fishe wch some will also think to bee young 



™ The first three fishes named in this paragraph need no comment ; the 

 Weed-fish is doubtless a local name, but for what species I cannot discover. 

 The Bass, Labrax lupus (Cuv. ), is, as might be expected from the nature 

 of our coast, by no means common here. 



" The latter part of this paragraph, beginning, " Sometimes they are 

 of a very large size," is written on the left-hand side of the opening, and is 

 evidently a subsequent addition. One would be inclined to think from the 

 great size of the fish here recorded (3 ft. 9 in.), that it may have been a 

 species of Tunny, or even a Bonito, both of which have been taken on the 

 Norfolk coast. Seventeen inches is a large mackerel. 



'* It is quite evident that the fish referred to here, and again in the sixth 

 letter to Merrett, is not the true Bleak {Alburnus lucideus) of our fresh- 

 waters. It seems that the young of some species of Ciupeoid was thus 

 known, for I find it stated in a MS. note in a copy of Berkenhout's 



