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fame fpecies with the European kind is not very 

 certain. 



They are in feveral countries a great article of 

 commerce, being cured different ways, by faking, 

 pickling, and drying : there are ftationary fiiheries 

 in Iceland^ Norway *, and the Baltic, but we be- 

 lieve no where greater than thofe at Colraine in 

 Ireland > and in Great Britain at Berwick^ and in 

 fpme of the rivers of Scotland. 



The falmon was known to the Romans, but not 

 to the Greeks t : Pliny fpeaks of it as a fifh found in 

 the rivers of Aquitaine : Aufonius enumerates it a r 

 mong thofe of the Mo/el. 



Nee te puniceo rutilantem <vifcere Salmo 

 Franjierem, lata cujus <vaga <verbera caudte 

 Gurgite de medio fummas referuntur in undas, 

 Occultus placido cum proditur aquore pulfus, 

 Tu loricato fquamofus peclore, front em 

 Lubricus, et dubia faclurus fercula canee, 

 Tempord longarum /err incorrupt a morarum, 

 Pr&Jignis maculis capitis f cui prodiga nutal 

 Al<vus f opimatoque fluens abdomine water. 



Nor I thy fcarlet belly will omit, 

 O Salmon, whofe broad tail with whifking flrokes 

 Bears thee up from the bottom of the ftream 

 Quick to the iurface ; and the fecret lafh 

 Below, betrays thee in the placid deep. 

 Arm'd in thy flaky mail, thy glofly fnout 



* There was, about the year 1578, a pretty confiderable 

 falmon fifhery at Cola 9 in Ruffian Laplan4* Hackluyt. <voy* 

 I. 4i& 



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