See quotation, 1832; and Notes and Queries, 11 S. iii. 335.
1769. Whether the ninety two tom-cod and seventeen scalpions are yet digested.—Mass. Gazette, Feb. 16.
1832. The Sculpion [note: Cottus quadricornis] is common about the mouths and salt water harbours of our rivers—is fond of fish-offal and the refuse of ship-cookery.—Williamson, ‘History of Maine,’ i. 163.
1859. Now the Sculpin (Cottus Virginianus) is a little water-beast which pretends to consider itself a fish, and, under that pretext, hangs about the piles upon which West-Boston Bridge is built, swallowing the bait and hook intended for flounders.—Holmes, ‘The Professor at the Breakfast-Table,’ ch. i.
1873. Ugly and grotesque as are the full-grown fish, there is nothing among the finny tribe more dainty, more quaint and delicate, than the baby sculpin.—Celia Thaxter, ‘Isles of Shoals,’ p. 86.
