- fob Mr. WAFERS Defcriptiott 



which as foon as they haVe taken the Fjfh, 

 they pull out and tafte-: If it'tafte fweet, 

 they drefs and eat the Fiih without any 

 Fear • but if the Liver be bitter, or bite 

 the Tongue like Pepper, they conclude the 

 Fifh to be nought, and throw it away. 



There is another fort of Fifh on the 

 North-Sea Coaft, which our Seamen call 



<7*r-fffh. Gar-&{h y fome of theni are near two foot 

 long. They have a long Bone on the 

 Snout, of about a third part the length of 

 the Body $ and 'tis very (harp at the end. 

 They will glide along the Surface of the 

 Water as fwift as a Swallow, gliding thus 

 on the Surface, and leaping out of the 

 Water alternately, thirty or forty times to- 

 gether, They move with, fuch a Force, 

 that as I have been inform'd,- they will 

 run their Snout through the fide of a Ca- 

 nod 5 and 'tis dangerous for a Man who is 

 "Swimming to meet with them, left they 

 ftrike through him. The Back-bone looks 

 blewifh, of a Colour towards a Sa'phire. 

 The Flefh is very good Meat. 



ScHfyhte* There are Sculpins alfo, a Fifh about a 

 a Foot long, with Prickles all about him : 

 They ftrip ^hem of their Prickly Skin , 

 and then drefs them. They are very good 

 Meat. 



$w$th There are in the North-Sea many other 

 aSV Fj$l befide thefe, as Sting-rays, Parrot-fiJh> 

 conger- Snooks, Conger-Eds, &c. and many others 



