Species of Fish. 
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teined as the seale, the dolphin, the porpoise, the thirlepoole, whale, 
and whatsoever is roundfbf bodie be it never so great and huge. Of 
the long sort are congers, eeles, garefish, and such other of that forme. 
Finallie, of the legged kind we have not manie, neither have I seene 
anie more of this sort than the polypus called in English the lobstar, 
•crayfish, or crevis, and the crab. ... We have in like sort no small 
store of great whelkes, scalops and perewinkles, and each of them are 
brought farre into the land from the sea coast in their several seasons.” 
(Holinshed , vol. i. p. 377.) 
The word polypus is here used according to its literal 
significance of “ many feet.” 
Du Bartas (p. 40) quaintly notices the difference 
in structure of various species of what he chooses to call 
fish:— 
“ Some have their heads groveling betwixt their feet, 
As tli’ inky cuttles, and the many-feet: 
Some in their breast (as crabs), some head-less are. 
Foot-less, and finnless (as the banefull hare, 
And heatfull oyster), in a heap confus’d, 
Their parts unparted, in themselves diffus’d.” 
Bichard Carew gives the following short list of fish 
taken in the havens of Cornwall:— 
“ They may be divided into three kinds, shell, flat, and round fish. 
Of shell fish, there are winkles, limpets, cockles, muscles, shrimps, 
•crabs, lobsters, and oysters. 
“ Of flat fish, rays, thornbacks, soles, flowks, dabs, plaice. 
“ Of round fish, brit, sprat, barn, smelts, whiting, scad, chad, 
sharks, cuddles, eels, conger, basse, millet, whirlpool, and porpoise. 
“ Of eels there are two sorts : the one valsen, of best taste, coming 
from the fresh rivers, when the great rain floods after September do 
break their beds, and carry them into the sea: the other, bred in the 
salt water, and called a conger eel, which afterwards, as his bigness in- 
creaseth, ventureth out into the main ocean, and is enfranchised a 
burgess of that vast commonwealth.” 
Of the different species found on the coast he writes :— 
“ The coast is plentifully stored, both with those fore-remembered, 
enlarged to a bigger size, and divers other, as, namely, of shell-fish, 
sea-hedgeliogs, scallops and sheath-fish: or flat, brets, turbots, dories. 
