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following list is probably not far from right, and is useful from its 
suggestions as to the origin of some of the names now in use : 
1. Baars. 
2. Aal. 
3. Haring. 
4. Makreel. 
5. Stenbrassem and Carper. 
6. Masbank. 
7. Sc ho l and Bot. 
8. Steur. 
9. Prik. 
10. Knorhaan. 
Perch, (white and yellow). 
Eel. 
Herring. 
Mackerel. 
Bream and Sucker. 
Mossbunker or Menhaden. 
Flatfish and Flounder. 
Sturgeon. 
Lamprey. 
Gurnard or Sea Robin and Sculpin. 
The Weekvis (Weakfish or Squeteague), the Rock (Rock-fish), the Sonne 
vis (Sun-fish), Swart vis (Black-fish or Tautog), were probably later dis¬ 
coveries, and if the New Netherlanders had been less imaginative, might 
have been called numbers fourteen to seventeen. The principal difficulty 
with this myth is that A/osa has long been known in Holland as the 
“Elft.” Perhaps the double meaning of its name was what suggested 
an arithmetical nomenclature for the others. 
Another historical incident is connected with Pogonias. The legend 
of Pascagoula and its mysterious music, deemed supernatural by the Indians 
is still current. “ It may often be heard there on summer evenings,” says 
a recent writer. “The listener being on the beach, or, yet more favor¬ 
ably, in a boat floating on the river, a low, plaintive sound is heard rising 
and falling like that of an ^Folian harp, and seeming to issue from the 
water. The sounds, which are sweet and plaintive, but monotonous, 
cease as soon as there is any noise or disturbance of the water.” 
Bienville, the French explorer, heard the music of Pascagoula, when he 
made his voyage in 1699 to the mouths of the Mississippi, and his experi¬ 
ences are recorded in his narrative. 
Mr. A. W. Roberts gives in the American Angler the following inter¬ 
esting notes upon observations of the Drum in confinement: 
“ When curator of the New York Aquarium, several small specimens of 
the so-called “ Banded Drum ” were brought to the establishment by the 
regular collectors. At first they were placed in the medium-sized tanks, 
where they increased in size so rapidly that in course of time it was found 
necessary to remove them to more roomy quarters, where they remained 
