Gazetteer of the State of Maine With Numerous Illustrations, by Geo. J. Varney

BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY B. B. RUSSELL, 57 CORNHILL. 1882. Public domain image from

THE STATE OF MAINE    21

Gasterostoids.—Many-spined stickleback.

Atherinoids.—Silverside.

Scorpexoids.—Norway haddock, Sea raven.

|    Coptoids.—Sculpin-Greenland bullhead, Common sculpin or bulb

i    head,    Labrador    or northern sculpin.

j    Agoxoids. American aspidophore.

Trigloids.—Sea swallow.

Batrachoids.—Toad fish.

rBLERiNoms.—Radiated shanny, Butler fish.

Zoarceoids.—Thick lipped eel pout.

Axarrichoids.—Sea wolf.

Cryptocaxthoids.—Spotted wry-mouth.

Lophioids.—Angler-goose fish.

Sub-order Axacaxthixi, Muller, Gadoids.—Codfish, Frostfish—
tomcod, Haddock, Pollock, Hake, Cusk.

Phycixoids.—American codling.

Ophidioids.—New York ophidium.

Sub-order Pharyxgoxathi, Muller, Labroids.—Tautog—black-
fish, Cunner.

Sub-order Heterosoma, Bona, Pleuroxectoids. — Halibut,
Toothed flat-fish—summer flounder, Flounder.

Sub-order Physostomi, Muller, Cyprixoids.—Goldfish—Golden
earp, Shiner, Redfin.

Catastomoids.—Common sucker.

Cyprixodoxts.—Minnow—killifish.

^    Esocoids.—Common pickerel.

Salmoxoids.—Salmon, Brook trout, Sebago trout, Togue, Red-
bellied trout, Blue back, Whitefish, Smelt.

Clupeoids.—Herring, English herring, Common shad, Alewife,
Menhaden—pogy.

Exgraxlixoids.—Anchovy.

Order Apodes. Auguiloids.—Eel.

Order Lemxiscati, Kaup. Leptocaphalus.—Tliinhead.

Order Nematogxathi, Gill, Pimeloids.—Hornpout.

Sub Class Gaxoidei, (Ag.) Muller. Order Choxdrostei, Muller.
Sturioxoids,—Sturgeon.

Sub-class Elasmobraxchii, Bona, Order Plagiostomi, Cuvier,
Sub-order Squali, (Muller) Gill, Cetorhixoids,—Basking shark.
Scymxoids.—Sleeper.

Sub-Class Dermopteri, Owen, Order Hyperoartii, Bona.
Petrohyzoutoids, Bona. Lamper eel.

GEOLOGY, MINERALS, METALS, Etc.

Aroostook county appears to be wholly underlain with calcareous
slate, with these exceptions: in the centre there is a tract imperfectly
explored ; others are about the Eagle Lakes, where the rocks are Devo-
nian ; about the upper lakes of Fish River and of the Allegash, tbe
outcropping is of Trappean and altered rocks; with a tract of the
Lower Helderberg group running from Square Lake south-west be-
tween Long and Portage Lakes ; near range 14 on the eastern border
of the State begins a band consisting, first, of slate—probably of Silu-