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enemy of the Dog-Fish , that it is set at liberty whenever taken; 
and he adds in a note, ‘ the bodies of these fierce and vora¬ 
cious fish are often found in the stomach of the fishing-frog, 
or sea-devil.’ ” 
From the Christian Register, Boston, 1823, I take the fol¬ 
lowing : — 
“Natural Curiosity. — On Thursday, the 14th inst., 
two very large fish were seen off the Cape of Delaware, and 
ten boats, manned with forty persons, went in pursuit. After 
much exertion they succeeded in taking them, when they 
proved to be what are commonly called Devil-Fish . A male, 
the smaller of the two, was skinned, and the skin sent to 
New York. A vessel was chartered to bring the female to 
Philadelphia entire. 
“ This enormous fish weighed, when caught, three thousand 
j pounds , and measures twelve feet in length and fifteen in 
breadth. — Delaware Watchman .” 
The Dog-Fish. — Storer says, on page 188 of his valuable 
work on fishes, that this fish “ feeds upon the offal and gar¬ 
bage thrown upon the bottoms by the fishermen.” I have 
therefore placed him under the table. The Kraken are pre¬ 
sumed to be a fabulous sort of fish, and are said to grow to 
the length of two or three miles. Old whalers think, if there 
is such a fish, that the whales feed on it; they call it the 
Squid . 
Note 11. (Page 63.) 
il My squids here will make you some excellent sport .” The 
Squid (the Indian Remora , or Sucking-Fish,) is found in Bos¬ 
ton Bay. (See “ Storer’s Fishes of Massachusetts,” page 
153.) 
In a book on fishes, printed in Dublin, Ireland, in 1820, I 
find the following account: “The Indians of Jamaica and 
Cuba formerly used the Sucking-Fish in the catching of 
other fishes, somewhat in the same manner as hawks are em- 
