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William Penn Quotation on Pennsylvania Wildlife

Of living creatures, fish, fowl, and the beasts of the woods, here are divers sorts.... For food as well as profit, the elk, as big as a small ox, deer bigger than ours, beaver, raccoon, rabbits [and] squirrels, and some eat younger bear, and commend it. Of fowl of the land, there' is the turkey (forty and fifty pound weight), which is very great, pheasants, heath-birds, pigeons, and partridges in abundance. Of the water, the swan, goose, white and gray, brants, ducks, teal, also the snipe and curlew... Of fish, there is sturgeon, herring, rock, shad, catshead, sheepshead, eel, smelt, perch, roach; and in inland rivers, trout, some say salmon, about the Falls. Of shellfish, we have oysters, crabs, cockles, conches and mussels...

http://www.statemuseumpa.org/Education/Heritage_Week_2002/william_penn_quotes.htm
SOURCE: William Penn and the Founding of Pennsylvania, Jean Soderlund, CA.
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