66 $kto=€nglantis Harittcs. 
Lobflcr} 
Sea Lizard. 
Sea Locujis. 
Lump, Poddle, or Sea Owl. 
Lajiter. 
Ltix, peculiar to the river Rhyne. 
Sea Lights. 
[28] Lu7ia, a very fmall Fifh, but exceeding beautiful, 
broad-bodied and blewifh of colour; when it fwims, 
the Fins make a Circle like the Moon. 
Maycril. 
Maid. 
Manatee. 
Mola, a Fifh like a lump of Flefh, taken in the Venetian Sea. 
Millers Thumb ; Mulcct or Pollard. 
Molefifh. 
Minnow ; called likewife a Pink ; the fame name is given 
to young Salmon; it is called alfo a Witlin. 
Monkefifh? 
1 " I have seene some myselfe that have weighed 16 pound; but others have 
had, divers times, so great lobsters as have weighed 25 pound, as they assure 
me." — Higginsoiis Nc'M-Eng. Plantation, I. c, p. 120; with which compare 
Gould's Report, &c, p. 360. "Their plenty makes them little esteemed, and 
seldom eaten." — Wood, Ncw-Eng. Prosficfl, chap. ix. At p. 37, Josselyn counts 
them among the fishes, &c, most esteemed by the Indians; but Wood (/. c.) 
qualifies this in a passage already cited. The Indians, it seems, sometimes dried 
them, '"as they do lampres and oysters; which are delicate breakfast-meat so 
ordered." — Jossclyii's Voyages, p. 110. See the Indian way of catching lobsters, 
in Voyages, p. 140. 
2 "Munk-fish, a flat-fish like scate; having a hood like a fryer's cowl " (p. 96)- 
Lopliius America?ius, Cuv., the sea-devil of Storer (Synops. of Amer. Fishes, in 
