will fright away the fowles. True it is, that every ones imployment wil not permit him to fowle: what then? yet their imployments furnish them with silver Guns with which they may have it more easie. For the frighting of the fowle, true it is that many goe blurting away their pouder and shot, that have no more skill to kill, or winne a Goose, than many in _England_ that have rustie Muskets in their houses, knowes what belongs to a Souldier, yet are they not much affrighted. I have seene more living and dead the last yeare than I have done in former yeares. CHAP. IX. _Of Fish._ Having done with these, let me leade you from the land to the Sea, to view what commodities may come from thence; there is no countrey knowne, that yeelds more variety of fish winter and summer: and that not onely for the present spending and sustentation of the plantations, but likewise for trade into other countries, so that those which have had stages & make fishing voyages into those parts, have gained (it is thought) more than the new found land Iobbers. Codfish in these seas are larger than in new found land, six or seaven making a quintall, whereas there they have fifteene to the same weight; and though this they seeme a base and more contemptible commoditie in the judgement of more neate adventurers, yet it hath bin the enrichment of other nations, and is likely to prove no small commoditie to the planters, and likewise to _England_ if it were thorowly undertaken. Salt may be had from the salt Islands, and as is supposed may be made in the countrey. The chiefe fish for trade is Cod, but for the use of the countrey, there is all manner of fish as followeth. _The king of waters, the Sea shouldering Whale, The snuffing Grampus, with the oyly Seale, The storme præsaging Porpus, Herring-Hogge, Line shearing Sharke, the Catfish, and Sea Dogge, The Scale-fenc'd Sturgeon, wry mouthd Hollibut, The flounsing Sammon, Codfish, Greedigut: Cole, Haddocke, Haicke, the Thornebacke, and the Scate, Whose slimie outside makes him selde in date, The stately Basse old Neptunes fleeting post, That tides it out and in from Sea to Coast. Consorting Herrings, and the bony Shad, Big bellied Alewives, Machrills richly clad With Rainebow colours, th' Frostfish and the Smelt, As good as ever lady Gustus felt. The spotted Lamprons, Eeles, the Lamperies, That seeke fresh water brookes with Argus eyes: These waterie villagers with thousands more, Doe passe and repasse neare the verdant shore._ Kinds of all Shel-fish. _The luscious Lobster, with the Crabfish raw, The Brinish Oister, Muscle, Periwigge, And Tortoise sought for by the Indian Squaw, Which to the flats daunce many a winters Iigge, To dive for Cocles, and to digge for Clamms, Whereby her lazie husbands guts shee cramms._