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Clam or Clamp} 
Sea Cob. 
Cockes, or Coccles, or Coquil? 
Cook FiJJi. 
Rock Cod. 
Sea Cod or Sea Whiting? 
[25] Crab, divers kinds, as the Sea Crab, Boatfi/Ji, River 
Crab, Sea Lion, &c. 
1 The clam is one of the eight fishes mentioned at p. 37 as most prized by the 
Indians. " Sickisliuog (clams). This is a sweet kind of shell-fish, which all 
Indians generally over the country, winter and summer, delight in; and, at low 
water, the women dig for them. This fish, and the natural liquor of it, they boil; 
and it makes their broth and their nasaump (which is a kind of thickened broth) 
and their bread seasonable and savoury, instead of salt." — Williams's Key, &c, 
I. c. p. 224. " These fishes be in great plenty in most parts of the country : which 
is a great commodity for the feeding of swine, both in winter and summer; for, 
being once used to those places, they will repair to them as duly, every ebb, as if 
they were driven to them by keepers." — Wood, N. Eng. Prosped, I. c. The 
mollusk thus approved is the common clam (Afya arenaria, L.) ; but the foquau- 
hock, or quahog {Venus merccnaria, L.), "which the Indians wade deep and dive 
for" (R. Williams, /. c, p. 224), was also eaten by them, and the black part of 
the shell used for making their suckauhock, or black money. Wood speaks also 
of " clams as big as a penny white loaf, which are great dainties amongst the 
natives" (N. E. Prospect, I. c.) ; doubtless the giant clam (Alactra solidissima, 
Chemn.) of Gould (Report on Invertebr. of Mass., p. 51), which is still esteemed 
as food. 
2 See p. 36; by which it appears that the author has in view the tneteaitkock 
of the Indians; "the periwinkle, of which they make their zvo?nfiam, or white 
money, of half the value of their suckauhock, or black money" (R. Williams, /. c.) : 
supposed to be Buccinujn undatum, L. (Gould, /. c, p. 305) ; and possibly, also, 
one or two other allied shell-fish. 
3 "Cod-fish in these seas" (that is, Massachusetts Bay) "are larger than in 
Newfoundland, — six or seven making a quintal; whereas they have fifteen to 
the same weight." — JVetv-Eug. Proofed, I. c. Compare Storer, /. c, p. 121. 
Josselyn has an entertaining account of the sea-fishery, in his Voyages, pp. 
210-13. 
