62 LETTERS TO MERRETT. 



Trutta marina is taken with us — a better dish than 

 the Riuer trowt butt of the same bignesse. 



Loligo sepia a cuttle page 191 of your Pinax [see 

 Note 80] I conceiue worthy Sr it were best to putt them 

 in 2 distinct lines as distinct species of the Molles. The 

 loligo, calamare or sleue I haue often found cast up on 

 the seashoare & some haue been brought mee by 

 fishermen of aboue [20 crossed out] twentie pound 

 wayet. 



Among the fishes of our Norwich riuer wee scarce 

 reckon salmons [see Note 92] yet some are yearly taken, 

 butt all taken in the Riuer or coast haue the end of the 

 lower jaw very much hooked which enters a great way 

 into the upper jaw like a socket, you may find the 

 same though not in figure if you please to read 

 Johnstonus fol loi I am not satisfied with the conceit 

 of some authors there that is [it?] is a difference 

 of male and female for all ours are thus formed. The 

 fish is thicker than [oth crossed out] ordinarie salmons 

 and very much & more largely spotted whether not 

 rather Beccard gallorum or Anchorago Scaligeri I 

 haue bothe draught & head of one dryed either of 

 wch you may command. 



Scyllarus or cancellus in turbine tis probable you 

 have [see Note 84]. haue you cancellus in nerite a 

 small testaceous found upon this coast. 



[Fol. 40.] Haue you mullus ruber asper [see Note 63]. 



Haue [you] piscis octangularis Bivormii ?* [see Note 

 66, also pp. 65 and Sy infrd\. 



vermes marini larger than earthwormes [see Note 91] 

 digged out of the sea sand about 2 foot deepe at an 

 abbe water for bayte they are discouered by a little hole 

 or sinking of the sand at the top aboue them. 



* Thus in the MS. , but Browne seems to have intended to write Bicornis 

 Vormii, and accidentally to have run the two words together \_see p. 41 

 suprd\. 



