Note 81 — {23} Thirdly, Of Fishes.[62]
Reading edition
“Munk-fish, a flat-fish like scate; having a hood like a fryer’s cowl” (p. 96). Lophius Americanus, Cuv., the sea-devil of Storer (Synops. of Amer. Fishes, in Mem. Amer. Acad., N. S., vol. ii. p. 381), is called monk-fish in Maine.—Williamson, Hist., vol. i. p. 157.