Note 284 — {95} An Addition of some RARITIES overslipt.

“Numerous about the Isle of Sables; i.e., the Sandy Isle.”—Voyages, p. 106. “Mr. Graves” (year 1635) “in the ‘James,’ and Mr. Hodges in the ‘Rebecka,’ set sail for the Isle of Sable for sea-horse, which are there in great number,” &c.—Winthrop’s N. E., by Savage, vol. i. p. 162. And I cite one other mention of this pursuit: “Eastward is the Isle of Sables; whither one John Webb, alias Evered (an active man), with his company, are gone, with commission from the Bay to get sea-horse teeth and oyle.”—Lechford’s Newes from New England (1642), Mass. Hist. Coll., vol. iii. 3d series, p. 100. The Magdalen Islands, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, are the most southern habitat of the animal spoken of by Godman.—Amer. Nat. Hist., vol. i. p. 249.