[92] “This fish is much used for bait to catch a cod, hacke, polluck, and the like sea-fish.”—Voyages, p. 107. It is still so used.
[93] Described at p. 95.
[94] [See p. 34] of this, and p. 109 of the Voyages, where the author says, “Of sea-turtles, there are five sorts; of land-turtles, three sorts,—one of which is a right land-turtle, that seldom or never goes into the water; the other two being the river-turtle and the pond-turtle.”—See also the author’s observations on sea-turtles, at p. 39 of the Voyages.
[95] “Trouts there be good store in every brook; ordinarily two and twenty inches long. Their grease is good for the piles and clifts.”—Voyages, p. 110.
[96] See Storer’s Report, p. 146.
[97] [See p. 35]; and Voyages, p. 104. “The natives cut them in several parcel, and give and send them far and near for an acceptable present or dish.”—R. Williams, Key, l. c., p. 224.
[98] See Voyages, p. 110. This is the common sea-egg; Echinus granulatus, Say.—Gould’s Rep., p. 344.
[99] [See p. 24] and note.
[100] Our author’s account of the fishes of New England may take this of old Wood (N. E. Prospect, l. c.) for a tail-piece. “The chief fish for trade,” says he, “is a cod; but, for the use of the country, there is all manner of fish, as followeth:—
“The king of waters,—the sea-shouldering Whale;