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Ikfo^nglantos Parities 
Porpuife or Porpifs, Molebut, Sea Hog, Sus Marinus, 
Turjion. 
Pricft FiJJi or Sea Pricjl. 
Prawn or Crangone. 
P linger. 
Patella. 
Powt, the Feathered FiJJi, or Fork FiJJi. 
River Powt. 
Purfefijk, or Indian Rever/us, like an Eel; having a Skin 
on the hinder part of her Head, like a Purfe, with firings, 
which will open and fhut. 
ParratJiJJi. 
PurplcfiJJi. 
Porgee. 
Reinora, or Suck Stone, or Stop Ship. 
Sea Raven. 
[30] Rock or Roach. 
Rochet or Rougct. 
Ruff or Pope. 
Sea Ram. 
Salmon} 
SailfiJJi. 
every spring-tide." — Nc-w-Eng. Prosfiefl, chap. ix. This was in the waters of 
Massachusetts Bay, where Higginson (New-Eng. Plantation, I. c, p. 120) also 
speaks of their being found. The question whether the oyster is an indigenous 
inhabitant of our bay, or only an introduced stranger, is considered by Dr. Gould 
(Report on Invert. Animals of Mass., pp. 135, 365). 
1 One of the fishes "in greatest request" among the Indians (p. 37). Wood 
says it "is as good as it is in England, and in great plenty in some places." — 
Nexv-Eng. Prospcd, chap. ix. 
