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Ray (page 87) ; the voice of fome is thought to refemble that of 
a pipe ; it is therefore called in Cornwall a Piper. Of thefe we 
have the grey gurnard, the tub-fifh, the red gurnard or rocket, the 
piper, the Freaked gurnard (Jago, Ray, page 165); and that 
well- coloured fifh, and excellent meat, the furmullet. What 
is called in London the Horfe mackrel, the Cornifh call Scad, a 
fifh meanly accounted of ; not fo the doree ( quaji Deauratus , or 
gilded hdi, fays Ray, page 99), the faber^ five G alius marinus 
authorum. This fifh is of firm fubftance, and much coveted, but 
rather dry in companion of the foie and turbot \ 
Of fifhes not aculeated, fingle-finned on the back, we have the sect. ix, 
comber, (Jago, Ray page 163) the herring, and the pilchard; 
the two laft generally known ; but the great profit of the Pilchard 
(of which more in the fequel) is in a manner peculiar to Cornwall, 
and more particularly from the river of Fawy weft ward. Befides 
thefe, we have the fhad, or mother of herrings, (Ray, page 105) 
and the fprat or fparling, of which two forts are obferved in the 
Cornifh feas, one the offspring of the pilchard, the other of the 
herring, and eafily to be diftinguifhed ; fome fifhermen however 
think the fprats a diftinct kind of fifh from either, the belly of the 
one being fmooth, of the other rough x . 
Of the gar-fifh, or horn-fifh, there are two forts in Cornwall, 
fays Mr. Ray, (page 109) one called the Girrock, the other the 
Skipper, a fifh which moves its upper jaw ; cc Skipper Coriiubien- 
fium corruptione vocis fkopfer rofro breviore quam Acus vulgaris , 
fGrfan Saurus Rcndeletii , lib. 8. chap. 5.” Jago, Ray, page 165. 
Of fifhes fpinous, fingle-finned on the back, befides thofe found 
here by Mr. Ray, (from page 127, & c.) and thofe communicated 
by Mr. Jago, and publifhed in the end of his Synopfis, (from page 
163 y ) we have a fifh which, in Mr. Jago’s papers, I find called 
the Black-fifh, and thus deferibed : “ It is fmooth, with very ffnall 
thin feales, infomuch, that they will not be taken notice of without 
clofe infpedtion ; fifteen inches long, three quarters of an inch 
broad befides the fin ; head and nofe like a peal or trout, little 
mouth, very fmall teeth, a full and bright eye, only one fin on the 
back, beginning from the nofe, four inches and three quarters, 
near fix inches long, a forked tail, a large double noftril. Two 
taken at Loo, May 26, 1721, in the Sean, near the fhore in fandy 
ground with fmall ore-weed in his pot.” As this fifh appears to 
w It is common on our coaffs in the pilchard y As the fea-bream, the chad or young-bream, 
feafon, when you may buy of the largeft at Pen- the wrafle, butter-fifh, the father lafher, die p-old- 
zance generally for about fix pence each. finny, the cook, the corklino-. 
* See Hill, of Cork. * 
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