£rfo=(!Hn!jlanrjs Parities. 67 



Morfe, River or Sea Horfc} frefh water Mullet. 



Sea Mullet, Botargo or Petargo is made of their Spawn. 



Mufcle, divers kinds. 2 



NavelfiJIi. 



NunfifJi. 



Needlefijli. 



Sea Nettle. 



Oyfler? 



Occulata. 



Perch or River Partridge. 



Pollack. 



[29] Piper or GavefiJJi. 



Periwig. 



Periwi?zcle or Sea Snail or Whelk. 



Pike, or FrefJi-water Wolf, or River Wolf, Luce and 



Lucerne, which is an overgrown Pike. 

 Pik/iard, when they are dried as Red Herrings they are 



called Fumadoes. 

 Pilot Fijk. 



Plaice or Sea Sparrow. 

 Polipe or Potir-Contrel. 



Mem. Amer. Acad., N. S., vol. ii. p. 3S1), is called monk-fish in Maine. — Wil- 

 liamson., Hist., vol. i. p. 157. 



1 See p. 97. 



2 "The muscle is of two sorts, — sea-muscles (in which they find pearl) and 

 river-muscles." — Voyages, p. no. See p. 37, of the present volume, for an ac- 

 count of " the scarlet muscle," which . . . yieldeth a perfect purple or scarlet 

 juice ; dyeing linnen so that no washing will wear it out," &c. This could scarcely 

 have been a Purpura or Buccinum. 



3 See Voyages, p. no. "The oysters be great ones," says Wood; " in form 

 of a shoe-horn : some be a foot long. These breed on certain banks that are bare 



