|kto=<£nglanlrs Parities. 69 



Scattope or Venus Coccle. 



Scate, or Ray, or GriftleJiJJi ; of which divers kinds; as 



sliarp snowted Ray, Rock Ray, &c. 

 S/iaa 7 . 1 

 Shallow. 

 Sharpling. 

 Spurting. 

 Sculphi. 

 Sheep/Iiead? 



Soles, or Tonguefi/Ji, or Sea Capon, or Sea Partridge. 

 Seal, or Soil, or Zeal? 



Sea Calf, and (as fome will have it) Molebut. 

 SheathfiJIi^ 

 Sea Scales. 

 Sturgeon ; of the Roe of this Fifh they make Caviare, or 



Caviallie. 5 



1 "The shads be bigger than the English shads, and fatter." — Wood, I. c. 



2 " Taut-auog (sheep's-heads)." So Roger Williams's Key, /. c, p. 224. It is 

 probable, therefore, that our author had the fish that we call tautog in his mind 

 here. What is now called sheep's-head is not known in Massachusetts Bay and 

 northward. — Storer, I. c, p. 36. 



3 See p. 34; and Wood, /. c, chap. ix. 



4 See p. 96. It appears to be the mollusk, the shell of which is well known as 

 the razor-shell (Solen ensis , L. ). — Gould, Report, p. 28. 



5 See p. 32. "The sturgeons be all over the country; but the best catching of 

 them is upon the shoals of Cape Cod and in the river of Merrimack, where much 

 is taken, pickled, and brought to England. Some of these be 12, 14, and 18 feet 

 long." — Wood, Neiu-Eng. Prospect, chap. ix. R. Williams says that "the na- 

 tives, for the goodness and greatness of it, much prize it; and will neither furnish 

 the English with so many, nor so cheap, that any great trade is like to be made of 

 it, until the English themselves are fit to follow the fishing." — Key, I. c, p. 224. 

 It is one of Josselyn's eight fish which are in "greatest request" with the Indians 

 (P- 37)- He calls "Pechipscut" River, in Maine, "famous for multitudes of 

 mighty large sturgeon." — Voyages, p. 204. 



