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: a hogfhead, and others but a foot long *, they catch 

 only thefe laft, and that with a torch ; they are 

 very' fond of light, they hold it out to them from 

 the more at high-water, and they come to it, and 

 fo are left a-ground. The lencornet roafted, boiled, 

 or fricafied, is excellent eating but it makes the 

 fauce quite black. 



The gobergue refembles a fmall cod. It has the 

 fame tafte, and is dried like it. It has two black 

 fpots on each fide the head, and the failors tell you 

 that this is the fiili in which Sr. Peter found money 

 to pay the Roman emperor's tribute for our Lord 

 and himfelf, and that thefe two fpots are the two 

 places by which he held it ; this is the reafon it has 

 got the name of St. Peter's fifh. The fea-plaife 

 has firmer flefh and is of a better relifh than the 

 frefh water fort this is taken as well as the lobfter 

 or fea-crab ? with long poles armed with a pointed 

 iron, ending in a fork or hook which hinders the 

 riili from getting loofe. Laftly, in* feveral places, 

 efpecially in Acadia, the pools are full of falmon 

 trouts afoot long, and of turtles two foot diameter, 

 the fie Hi of which is excellent, and the upper fliell, 

 ftriped with white, red, and blue. 



Amongft the fifties which lake Champlain, and 

 the rivers falling into it, abound, M. Champlain 

 remarks one lingular enough, called Chaourafou ; 

 probably from the name given it by the Indians. 

 This is a fpecies of the armed fifti, which is found 

 in feveral other places ; this is in figure pretty much 

 like a pike, only i,t is covered with fcales which 

 are proof againit a, dagger \ its colour is a filver 

 grey, and from under its throat proceeds a bone 

 which is, fiat, indented, hollow, and pierced or open 

 at the end, from which it is probable the . animal 



breathes 



