THE SALMON. 



MONARCH of the British seas, the salmon is al- 

 lowed to be the most beautiful and best flavoured of 

 all anadromous fishes ; that is, such as make fresh 

 and salt water their alternate place of residence. 

 They affect rather a cold climate. They take to the 

 streams when but a little above the freezing point, and 

 the temperature in which they seem most to delight 

 and thrive is from 40 to 52 of Fahrenheit's scale. 

 The regions of Europe where they are generally 

 found may be reckoned from the Moselle, (a river 

 which falls into the Rhine at Coblentz), to the Arctic 

 circle. The streams upon the north-west coast of 

 America, which run into the Pacific Ocean, are said 

 by our late navigators to contain many of these fish ; 

 yet the remarkable purity and moderate tempera- 

 ture of the rivers in this country, not being so warm 

 in summer, nor so cold in winter, as they are in the 

 same latitudes in other parts of Europe and Ame- 

 rica, render them more peculiarly favourable for the 

 breed and haunt of the salmon. The American 

 rivers, too, are frozen during the whole of the win- 

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