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Morfe, River or Sea Horfe} frefh water Mullet. 
Sea Mullet, Botargo or Petargo is made of their Spawn. 
Mufcle, divers kinds. 2 
Navelfijh. 
Nunfifli. 
Needlefijh. 
Sea Nettle. 
Oyjlcr? 
Occulata. 
Perch or River Partridge. 
Pollack. 
[29] Piper or Gavcfi/Ji. 
Periwig. 
Periwincle or 6V« Snail or Whelk. 
Pike, or FreJJi-water Wolf, or River Wolf, Luce and 
Lucerne, which is an overgrown /Y/r. 
Pilchard, when they are dried as Red Herrings they are 
called Fumadoes. 
Pilot FifJi. 
Plaice or Sea Sparrow. 
Polipe or Potir-Contrel. 
Mem. Amer. Acad., N. S., vol. ii. p. 381), is called monk-fish in Maine. — Wil- 
liamson, Hist., vol. i. p. 157. 
1 See p. 97. 
2 "The muscle is of two sorts, — sea-muscles (in which they find pearl) and 
river-muscles." — Voyages, p. no. See p. 37, of the present volume, for an ac- 
count of " the scarlet muscle," which . . . yieldeth a perfect purple or scarlet 
juice ; dyeing Iinnen so that no washing will wear it out," &c. This could scarcely 
have been a Purpura or Buccinum. 
3 See Voyages, p. no. "The oysters be great ones," says Wood; " in form 
of a shoe-horn : some be a foot long. These breed on certain banks that are bare 
