6o |kto=(£nglanrj3 Parities. 



A Catalogue of Fi/Ii, that is, of thofe that are to be feen 

 between the EnglifJi Coafl and America, and thofe proper 

 to the Countrey. 



Alder ling. 



Alize, Alewife, becaufe great-bellied ; Olafle, Oldwife, 



Allow} 

 Anchova or Sea Minnow. 

 Aleport. 

 Albicore? 

 Barbie. 

 Barracha. 



Barracoutha, a fifh peculiar to the Wefl-Indies? 

 Barflicle. 

 Baffe> 



1 "Like a herrin, but has a bigger bellie; therefore called an alewife." — 

 Voyages, p. 107. The other names, alize and allow, are doubtless corruptions of 

 the French alose, also in use among London fishmongers to designate shad from 

 certain waters. — Hees's Cyc, in loco. The old Latin word alosa, supposed to 

 have been always applied to the fish just mentioned, is adopted by Cuvier for the 

 genus which includes our shad, alewife, and menhaden. 



2 The tunny is so called on the coast of New England. — Storer's Report on 

 the Fishes of Mass., p. 48. 



3 It is, notwithstanding, set down in the author's list of fishes " that are to be 

 seen and catch'd in the sea and fresh waters in New England." — Voyages, p. 113. 

 And compare Storer, Sj'nops. (Mem. Am. Acad., N. S., vol. ii.), p. 300. 



i See Voyages, p. 108. The first settlers esteemed the bass above most other 

 fish. See Higginson's New-England's Plantation (Hist. Coll., vol. i. p. 120). 

 Wood calls it (New-Eng. Prospedt, chap, ix.) "one of the best fish in the country; 

 and though men are soon wearied with other fish, yet are they never with bass. 

 The Indians," he says, eat lobsters, "when they can get no bass." The head was 

 especially prized ; as see Wood, and also Roger Williams's Key (Hist. Coll., vol.. 



