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A Catalogue of FifJi, that is, of thofe that are to be feen 
between the Englifli Coajl and America, and thofe proper 
to the Countrey. 
Alder ling. 
A Use, Alewife, becaufe great-bellied ; Olafle, Oldwife, 
Allow} 
Anchova or Sea Minnow. 
A leport. 
Albicore? 
Barbie. 
Barracha. 
Barracoutha, a fifh peculiar to the Weft-Indies? 
Barflicle. 
Baffe* 
1 "Like a herrin, but has a bigger bellie; therefore called an alewife." — 
Voyages, p. 107. The other names, alize and allow, are doubtless corruptions of 
the French alose, also in use among London fishmongers to designate shad from 
certain waters. — Reefs Cyc., in loco. The old Latin word alosa, supposed to 
have been always applied to the fish just mentioned, is adopted by Cuvier for the 
genus which includes our shad, alewife, and menhaden. 
2 The tunny is so called on the coast of New England. — Storey's Report on 
the Fishes of Mass., p. 48. 
3 It is, notwithstanding, set down in the author's list of fishes " that are to be 
seen and catch'd in the sea and fresh waters in New England." — Voyages, p. 113. 
And compare Storer, Synops. (Mem. Am. Acad., N. S., vol. ii.), p. 300. 
' 4 See Voyages, p. 108. The first settlers esteemed the bass above most other 
fish. See Higginson's New-England's Plantation (Hist. Coll., vol. i. p. 120). 
Wood calls it (New-Eng. Prospeift, chap, ix.) "one of the best fish in the country; 
and though men are soon wearied with other fish, yet are they never with bass. 
The Indians," he says, eat lobsters, "when they can get no bass." The head was 
especially prized ; as see Wood, and also Roger Williams's Key (Hist. Coll., vol. 
