f more variety, greater plenty, or of
better in their several kinds.

In the spring of the year herrings come up in such abundance into their
brooks and fords to spawn, that it is almost impossible to ride through
without treading on them. Thus do those poor creatures expose their own
lives to some hazard, out of their care to find a more convenient
reception for their young, which are not yet alive. Thence it is that at
this time of the year the freshes of the rivers, like that of the
Broadruck, stink of fish.

Besides these herrings, there come up likewise into the freshes from the
sea multitudes of shad, rock, sturgeon, and some few lampreys, which
fasten themselves to the shad, as the remora of Imperatus is said to do
to the shark of Tiburone. They continue their stay there about three
months. The shads at their first coming up are fat and fleshy; but they
waste so extremely in milting and spawning, that at their going down
they are poor, and seem fuller of bones, only because they have less
flesh. It is upon this account (I suppose) that those in the Severn,
which in Gloucester they call twaits, are said at first to want those
intermusculary bones, which afterwards they abound with. As these are in
the freshes, so the salts afford at certain times of the year many other
kinds of fish in infinite shoals, such as the old-wife, a fish not much
unlike an herring, and the sheep's-head, a sort of fish, which they
esteem in the number of their best.

Sec. 22. There is likewise great plenty of other fish all the summer long;
and almost in every part of the rivers and brooks, there are found of
different kinds. Wherefore I shall not pretend to give a detail of them,
but venture to mention the names only of such as I have eaten and seen
myself, and so leave the rest to those that are better skilled in
natural history. However, I may add, that besides all those that I have
met with myself, I have heard of a great many very good sorts, both in
the salts and freshes; and such people, too, as have not always spent
their time in that country, have commended them to me beyond any they
had ever eaten before.

Those which I know of myself I remember by the names of herring, rock,
sturgeon, shad, old-wife, sheep's-head, black and red drum, trout,
taylor, green-fish, sun-fish, bass, chub, place, flounder, whiting,
fatback, maid, wife, small-turtle, crab, oyster, mussel, cockle, shrimp,
needle-fish, breme, carp, pike, jack, mullet,