broadruck

Updated: May 15, 2025

Thus do those poor creatures expose their own lives to some hazard out of their care to find a more convenient reception for their young, which are not yet alive. Thence it is that at this time of the year, the freshes of the rivers, like that of the Broadruck, stink of fish.

James Wharton - The Bounty of the Chesapeake: Fishing in Colonial Virginia