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REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



" The Salmon likewise is a Sea-fish, but as the Basse, comes into Kivers 

 to spawn. The Salmon the first year is a Salmon-smolt ; The second a 

 Mort; The third a Spraid; The fourth a Soar ; The fifth a Sorrel; The 

 sixth a forJcet-tail ; and the seventh year a Salmon. There are another 

 sort of Salmon frequent iu those parts, called White Salmons." 11 



" Capeling is a small fish like smelt." — (P. 274.) 



"The Frost-fish is little bigger than a Gudgeon, and are taken in 

 fresh brooks ; when the waters are frozen they make a hole in the Ice, 

 about half a yard or yard wide, to which the fish repair in great num- 

 bers, where, with small nets bound to a hoop about the bigness of a 

 firkin-hoop, with a staff fastened to it, they take them out of the hole. 

 I have not done with the fish yet, being willing to let you know all of 

 them that are to be seen and catched in the Sea & fresh waters of New 

 England; and because I will not tire/ your patience overmuch, having 

 no occasion to enlarge my discourse, I shall only name them and so con- 

 clude." 



Grandpisse, 

 Hake, 



"Aleport, 



Albiocre, 



Barracha, 



Barracoutha, 



Blew-fish, 



Bull-head, 



Bur fish, 



Cat-fish, 



Cony-fish, 



Cusk, 



Clam, 



Bock-Cod, 



Sea-Cod, 



Divers kinds of Crabs, 



Sea-cucumber, 



Gunner, 



Sea-Darts or Javelins, 



Flail-fish, 



Flounder or Flowke, 



Flying-fish, 



several kinds, 

 Sea-Flea, 



Haddock, 



Horse- foot, 



Hallibut, 



Hen-fish, 



Lampre, 



Lirnpin, 



Lumpe, 



Maid, 



Monk-fish, 



Sea Mullet, 



Nun-fish, 



Perch, 



Polluck, 



Periwincle, 



Pike, 



Pilot-fish, 



Plaice, 



Porpisse, 



Prawne, 



Purple-fish, 



Porgee, 



Bemora, 



Sea-Bavens, 



Sail-fish, 



Scallop, 



Scate, 



Stingray, 



Sculpin, 



Shade! , 



Spurlin, 



Sheath-fish, 



Smelt, 



Shrimps, 



Sprates, 



Star-fish, 



Sword-fish, 



Thornback, 



Turbet, 



The Vlatife or Saw-fish, 



Sea-Vrchin, 



Sea-Vnicorn." 



—(Pp. 276, 277.) 



New England's rarities discovered in Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, and 

 Plants of thai country, etc. By John Josselyn, Gent. 1672. 



[Reprinted in Archseologia Americana, vol. IV., I860.] 



" The wobble, an ill-shaped bird ; having no long feathers in their 

 pinions, which is the reason they cannot fiy ; not much unlike the pen- 

 gwin. They are in the spring very fat, or rather oyly ; but pull'd and 

 garbidg'd, and laid to the fire to roast, they yield not one drop."*— (P. 

 146.) 



" The Sturgeon ; of whose sounds is made isinglass, — a kind of glew 

 much used in physick. This fish is here in great plenty, and in some 

 rivers so numerous that it is hazardous for canoes and the like small 

 vessels to pass to and again ; as in Pechrpscut River to the eastward." — 

 (P. 164.) 



"The scarlet muscle. At Paschataway, (a plantation about fifty 



* This refers to the Great Auk, Alca impenrm, now extinct. — S. F. B. 



