286 S A L M O N. Class IV. 



Slippery efcapes the rimer's fingers ; elfe 

 Thou raakefl a fealt for niceil judging palates : 

 And yet long uncorrupted thou remained : 

 With fpotted head remarked, and wavy fpread, 

 Of paunch immenfe o'erftovving wide with fat. 



Anonymous, 



Ascends 



The falmon is a fifh that lives both in the fait 

 Rivers. anc | fefa W aters, quitting the fea at certain feafons 

 for the fake of depofiting its fpawn in fecurity, in the 

 gravelly beds of rivers remote from their mouths. 

 There are fcarce any difficulties but what they 

 •will overcome, in order to arrive at places fit for 

 their purpofe : they will afcend rivers hundreds of 

 ^ miles, force themfelves againft the mod rapid 

 ftreams, and fpring with amazing agility over ca- 

 taracts of feveral feet in height. Salmon are fre- 

 quently taken in the Rhine as high up as Bafil\ 

 Salmon they gain the fources of the Lapland rivers* in 

 fpite of their torrent-like currents, and furpafs the 

 perpendicular falls of Leixfiipf> Kennerth^, and 

 Pont aberglafiyn%\ thefe lait feats we have been 

 witnefs to, and feen the efforts of fcores of rifh, fome 

 of which fucceeded, others mifcarried during the 

 time of our (lay. 



* Scheff. Lap. 139. 

 f Near Dublin. 



\ On the Ti<vy in South Wales y which Michael Drayton cele- 

 brates in his Polyolbion on this account. 



§ Amidft Snowdon hills, a wildfcene in the ftyle of Sahator 

 Rofa. 



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