Note 78 — {23} Thirdly, Of Fishes.[62]
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“The sea-hare is as big as grampus, or herrin-hog; and as white as a sheet. There hath been of them in Black-Point Harbour, and some way up the river; but we could never take any of them. Several have shot sluggs at them, but lost their labour.”—Voyages, p. 105. The Lepus marinus of the old writers is a naked mollusk of the Mediterranean; Laplysia depilans, L.: but Josselyn’s was a very different animal.