66 Ucto=CEngIantos Parities. 



Lobfter) 



Sea Lizard. 



Sea Locujls. 



Lump, Poddle, or Sea Owl. 



Lanter. 



Lux, peculiar to the river Rhyne. 



Sea Lights. 



[28] Luna, a very fmall Fifh, but exceeding beautiful, 



broad-bodied and blewifh of colour; when it fwims, 



the Fins make a Circle like the Moon. 

 Maycril. 

 Maid. 

 Manatee. 



Mo/a, a Fifh like a lump of Flefh, taken in the Venetian Sea. 

 Millers Thumb, Mulcet or Pollard. 

 Molefi/Ji. 

 Minnow, called likewife a Pink ; the fame name is given 



to 3'oung Salmon ; it is called alio a Witlin. 

 Monkefijk? 



1 "I have seene some myselfe that have weighed 16 pound; but others have 

 had, divers times, so great lobsters as have weighed 25 pound, as they assure 

 me." — Higginsoti's Nevj-Eng. Plantation, I. c, p. 120; with which compare 

 Gould's Report, &c, p. 360. " Their plenty makes them little esteemed, and 

 seldom eaten." — Wood, Ne'M-Eng. Prospecl, chap. ix. At p. 37, Josselyn counts 

 them among the fishes, &c., most esteemed by the Indians; but Wood (7. c.) 

 qualifies this in a passage already cited. The Indians, it seems, sometimes dried 

 them, "as they do lampres and oysters; which are delicate breakfast-meat so 

 ordered." — Josselyn's Voyages, p. no. See the Indian way of catching lobsters, 

 in Voj-ages, p. 140. 



2 "Munk-fish, a flat-fish like scate; having a hood like a fryer's cowl " (p. 96)- 

 Lofhius Americanus, Cuv., the sea-devil of Storer (Synops. of Amer. Fishes, in 



