Eastward he swims as "scup," while at the Manhattan end of the Sound he is fried as "porgie."

Yours, &c. In an old History of Bermuda, published in the year 1661, is the following passage: "There is great store of fish, which being mostly unknown to the English, they gave them such names as best liked them, as porgie-fish, hog-fish, yellow-tails, cony-fish, &c." EXTRACT.