Order and Government of a Nobleman s Hbu/e, &c. 387

FISH. Fumy, p. 341. " Called in Cornwall/' fays Ray, " Spanifli Mackreil, of which we favv a large one taken at Penzans." Pen. III. 266. Porpoffe, p. 34.1. Muffet on Food, p. 165, tells us, " Porpoffes, Turfions, or Sea- tfogs, are of the nature of Swine, never good till they be fat, contrary to the difpofititm of Tunnies, whofe flefh is ever beft when they are leaned. It is an unfavoury meat, engendering many fuperfluous humours, augmenting fleagm, and troubling no lefs an indifferent ftomach, then they trouble the water againft a tempeft : yet many ladies and gentlemen love it exceedingly, balct like venifon : yea, I knew a great gentlewoman, in Warwick Lane, once fend for a pafty of it given from a courtier, when the prifonets of Newgate had refufed the Fellow of it out of the begger's bafket. Thus like lips tike lettice,znd that which is moft men's bane, may be fitteft to delight and nourifh others." Sealump, p. 341, " Lumps are of two forts," fays Muffet, p. 156, (Pen. III. 133,) 4< the one as round almoft as a Bowie, the other refembling the fillets of a Calfe: either of them is deformed, fhapelefs, and ugly, fo that rny maides once at Ipfwich Were afraid to touch it. They are beft being boiled and pickled like Sturgian, and fa aten cold." Chevine, p 341. " The Chub or Chevin, Capito. Cephalus Fluv." Ray. Pen- nant III 368. Crevices, p. 341. Muffett tells us, p, 178, " We do foolifhly to eat them lafl be- ing a fine temperate and nourifhing meat." They are thus mentioned in Skinner, "Cray-Fifh, vel potius Crevice Aftacus flu- 'viatilis, quibufdam minus proprie, Cancer fluviatilis." Seale, p. 341. " Scale's Flefh, 1 ' fays Muffett, p. 167, " is counted hard of digeftion, as it is grofs of fubftance, efpecially being old; wherefore I leave it to mariners and failers, for whofe ftomacks it is fitteft, and who know the beft way how to prepare k." Rudds, p. 341 * 4 Skinner fays, " Pifcis Rutilo pifci cognatus, vide Roche and Red." Pen. III. 363. Breame^ p. 341. " Cyprinus latus, Abranais." Ray. Pennant III. 362. Uabberdlne^ p. 343. The Notes to the iS'erthumberland Houfehold Book fay, <* This is the Northern Term for barreled Cod. Vid. Wil-lughby, 166, fo called from Aberdeen, anciently famous for curing this kind of fi(h." Britt, p. 348. Brett, the northern name for a Turbot. Pen. Ill, 233. " The names of Turbot and Halibut are confounded in feveral countreys. What in the weft they call D 2 d*c