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Which, in some places, are often cast up; *I have seene some of them, 

 but not above sixtie foot long ; The Natives cut them out in severell 

 parcells, and give and sende farre and neere for an acceptable present 

 or dish. 



Ashaunt-teaug. Lobsters. 



Opponenanhock. Oysters. 



Sickissuog. Clams. [Soft clam. My a arenaria."] 



Obs : This is a sweet kind of shellfish, which all Indians generally 

 over the Country, Winter and Summer, delight in ; and at low water the 

 women dig for them. .This fish, and the naturall liquors of it, they 

 boile, and it makes their broth and their nassatimp (which is a kind of 

 thickened broth) and their bread seasonable and savoury, instead of Salt : 

 and for that the English Swine dig and root these Clams wheresoever 

 they come, and watch the low water (as the Indian women do) there- 

 fore of all the English Catteil, the Swine (as also because of their filthy 

 "disposition) are most hateful to all Natives, and they call them filthy cut- 

 throats, &c. 



Sequnnock. Poquaukock. A Horse-fish. [Hard clam; quohog. Venus 



mercenarla.~\ 



Obs : This the English call Hens, a little thick shell fish, which the 

 Indians wade deepe and dive for, and after they have eaten the meat 

 there (in those which are good) they breake out of the shell, about half 

 an inch of a blacke part of it, of which they make their Luckauhock, or 

 black money, which is to them precious. 



Meteauhock. The Periwiuckle. [Probably Pyrula, (Ham- 



mond.)] 



Of which they make their Wompam, or white money, of halfe the value 

 of their Suckawhock or black money, of which more in the Chapter of 

 their Coyne. 



Moamitteatig. A little sort of fish, halfe as big as Sprats, 



plentifull iu Winter. [Murmchogs or cy- 

 pronodonts.J 



Paponaumshog. A winter fish. [Tom cod.] 



* 



Which comes up in the brookes and rivulets; some call them Frost 

 fish, from their comming up from the Sea into fresh brookes, in times of 

 frost and snow. 



Qunosuog. A fresh fish. [The pickerel.] 



which the Indians break the ice in fresh ponds, when they take also 

 many other sorts: for, to my knowledge, the Country yeelds many sorts 

 of other fish, which I mention not. 



On some early notices of New England fishes. By J. Hammond Trumbull. 



Hartford, Connecticut, December 30, 1871. 

 My Dear Sir : * * * * * 



As to Williams's tautauog, the fact that the Indiau name comes down 

 to us associated always with the "blackfish" or tautog, and nowhere 

 with the Sargus ovis, convinces me that the former was the " Sheeps- 



