6 9 
Scallopc or Venus Cocclc. 
Scale, or Ray, or Grijllcfijli ; of which divers kinds; as 
sharp snowtcd Ray, Rock Ray, &c. 
Shad. 1 
Shallow. 
Sharpling. 
Spur ling. 
Sculpin. 
Shecp/Iicad? 
Soles, or Tongueji/Ji, or Sea Capon, or Sea Partridge. 
Seal, or Soil, or Zeal? 
Sea Calf, and (as fome will have it) Molcbut. 
ShcathfiJJi.^ 
Sea Scales. 
Sturgeon ; of the Roe of this Fifh they make Caviare, or 
Cavialtie? 
1 "The shads be bigger than the English shads, and fatter." — Wood, I. c. 
2 " Taut-auog (sheep's-heads)." So Roger Williams's Key, I. c, p. 224. It is 
probable, therefore, that our author had the fish that we call tautog in his mind 
here. What is now called sheep's-head is not known in Massachusetts Bay and 
northward. — Storcr, I. c, p. 36. 
3 See p. 34; and Wood, /. c, chap. ix. 
* See p. 96. It appears to be the mollusk, the shell of which is well known as 
the razor-shell (Solen etisis , L. ). — Gould, Report, p. 28. 
5 See p. 32. "The sturgeons be all over the country; but the best catching of 
them is upon the shoals of Cape Cod and in the river of Merrimack, where much 
is taken, pickled, and brought to England. Some of these be 12, 14, and 18 feet 
long." — Wood, New-Eng. Prospcd, chap. ix. R. Williams says that "the na- 
tives, for the goodness and greatness of it, much prize it; and will neither furnish 
the English with so many, nor so cheap, that any great trade is like to be made of 
it, until the English themselves are fit to follow the fishing." — Key, 1. c., p. 224. 
It is one of Josselyn's eight fish which are in "greatest request" with the Indians 
(P- 37)- He calls "Pechipscut" River, in Maine, "famous for multitudes of 
mighty large sturgeon." — Voyages, p. 204. 
