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SALMO. 



A LARGR portion of the upper jaw formed by the raystache, which 

 has teeth along its edge; teeth also on the intermaxillary bones, round 

 the palate and in front of it; a double row on the middle line or 

 vomer, and on the tongue. Ventral fins abdominal, opposite the middle 

 of the first dorsal; the rayless fin opposite the anal. Internally, the 

 air-bladder communicates with the gullet by an obvious duct. 



SALMON. 



Salmo, JoNSTON; Table 23, f. 1, Table 31, f. 12. 



A Salmon, Willoughbv; p. 189. 



Salmo salar, Linnaeus. Cuviee. Bloch; PL 20. 

 Tleming; Br. Animals, p. 179. 



" " Jenyns; Manual, p. 421. 



" " Yarrell; Br. Fishes, vol. ii, p. 1. 



" " Fisherman's Magazine, Vol. i. No. 4. 



The Salmon's praises to my verse belong, 

 King of the streams and glory of our song. 

 He claims the rivers and he claims the seas. 

 Those for his summer's joys, his winter's these. 

 Kow in the storm he stems the mountain waves, 

 And now the thundering cataract he braves; 

 Tivy or Wear; when remeant from the deep, 

 Eenew'd in vigour he essays the leap; 

 Then springing with a bound surmounts the height, 

 Dashes the foam and glories in his might. 



Anglers. 



Among the fishes of usual occurrence in the British Islands 

 there does not exist a family of which the minuter particulars 

 of its Natural History, or even the precise distinction of species, 

 is so little agreed on as that of the Salmon; and this state of 

 ignorance, whether in scientific observers or in fishermen, is the 

 more to be wondered at, as all the species are known to pass 

 a large portion of their lives at no great distance from places 

 of human resort; where also they have been long the subject 



