Class IV. TUNNY, 267 



merce -, the time of its arrival into the Mediterra- 

 nean from the ocean was obferved, and (lations for 

 taking them eftablifhed in places it molt frequent- 

 ed ; the eminencies above the fifhery were flyled 

 ®uvvQcrKQ7rEiu* 9 and the watchmen that gave notice to 

 thofe below of the motions of the fifh, Gtuwoo-Kowoi -f. 

 From one of the former the lover in Theocritus 

 threatened to take a defperate leap, on account of 

 his miftrefs's cruelty. 



Tav Galrav aTrodvg e~$ HUfiara tyivcc atev/xai 



X2tt£ j> rag 0TNNIX2 (moma&Tcu *0?.t^ ygmEug. 



Do you not hear ? then, rue your Goat-herd's fate, 

 For, from the rock where Olpis doth defcry 

 The numerous Thunny, I will plunge and die. 



The very fame ftation, in all probability, is at 

 this time made ufe of, as there are very confider- 

 able thunny fifheries on the coaft of Sicily y as well 

 as feveral other parts of the Mediterranean^ , where 

 they are cured, and make a great article of pro- 

 vifion in the adjacent kingdoms. They are caught 



* Strabo Lib. V. 156. 



f Oppian Halieut. III. 638. This perfon anfwers to what 

 the Cornijb call a Huer, who watches the arrival of the pil- 

 chards. 



X Many of them are the fame that were ufed by the antients, 

 as we learn from Oppian and others. 



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