62 $cfo=ffi?nglanTjs Earitirs. 



Clam or Clamp} 

 Sea Cob. 



Cockes, or Coccles, or Coquil? 

 Cook FifJi. 

 Rock Cod. 



Sea Cod or Sea Whiting? 



[25] Crab, divers kinds, as the Sea Crab, BoatfiJJi, River 

 Crab, Sea Lion, Cjfc. 



1 The clam is one of the eight fishes mentioned at p. 37 as most prized by the 

 Indians. " Sickishuog (clams). This is a sweet kind of shell-fish, 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 natural liquor of it, they hoil; 

 and it makes their broth and their nasaump (which is a kind of thickened broth) 

 and their bread seasonable and savoury, instead of salt." — Williams's Key, &c, 

 I. c. p. 224. "These fishes be in great plenty in most parts of the country: which 

 is a great commodity for the feeding of swine, both in winter and summer; for, 

 being once used to those places, they will repair to them as duly, every ebb, as if 

 they were driven to them by keepers." — Wood, N. Eng. Prospedl, I. c. The 

 mollusk thus approved is the common clam (Afya arenaria, L.) ; but the poquau- 

 Iiock, or quahog ( Venus mercenaria, L.), " which the Indians wade deep and dive 

 for" (R. Williams, /. c, p. 224), was also eaten by them, and the black part of 

 the shell used for making their suckau/iock, or black money. Wood speaks also 

 of "clams as big as a penny white loaf, which are great dainties amongst the 

 natives " (N. E. Prospect, I. c.) ; doubtless the giant clam (Macira solidissima, 

 Chemn.) of Gould (Report on Invertebr. of Mass., p. 51), which is still esteemed 

 as food. 



2 See p. 36 ; by which it appears that the author has in view the meteauhock 

 of the Indians; "the periwinkle, of which they make their ivomfam, or white 

 mone3', of half the value of their suckauhock, or black money" (R. Williams, /. c.) : 

 supposed to be Buccinum undatum, L. (Gould, /. c, p. 305) ; and possibly, also, 

 one or two other allied shell-fish. 



3 " Cod»fish in these seas" (that is, Massachusetts Bay) "are larger than in 

 Newfoundland, — six or seven making a quintal ; whereas they have fifteen to 

 the same weight." — Neiv-Eng. Prosfe/3, I. c. Compare Storer, /. c., p. 121. 

 Josselyn has an entertaining account of the sea-fishery, in his Voyages, pp. 

 210-13. 



