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INDEX. 



Perch, much admired by the 

 antients, page 345 



acrooked variety found 



in Wales, 347 

 sea, 349 

 Physeter, or blowing whale, 



69 

 Pike, common, 424 



its longevity, 427 

 gar, or sea-needle. 429 

 saury, 430 

 Pilchard, 453 



its important fishery, 

 454 

 Pipe-fish, longer, 184 

 shorter, 1 86 

 little, or sea-ad- 

 der, 187 

 oequoreal, 188 

 Piper, 374 

 Plaise, 304 

 Pliny, his account of the 



Ovum anguinum, 41 

 Pogge, 293 



Pollack, the whiting, 254 

 Poor, or Power, a kind of cod- 

 fish, 249 

 Porbeagle, a species of shark, 



152 

 Porpesse, 93 



a royal dish, 95 

 Pout, a species of cod-fish, 246 

 Pride, 107 



O 



Quia, Mr. the actor, first re- 



commended the eating of 

 the Doree in England, page 

 297 



R 



Ray, 111 



sharp nosed, 113 

 rough, 1 15 

 fuller, 116 

 shagreen, 117 

 electric, its numbing qua- 

 lity, 118 

 whip, 128 

 Ray, sting, 125 



the Trygon of the an- 

 tients, 126 

 fables relating to it, ib. 

 Cuvier, 124 

 Reptiles, the third class of 



animals, 1 . 9 

 Roach, 482 

 Rockling, 267 

 Rud, 479 

 Ruffe, 350 



the black, or black fish 

 of Mr. Jago, 351 



Salmon, grey, 394 

 white, 396 

 common, 382 

 leaps, 384 

 fishery, 388 

 trout, 397 



