O F F I S H E ST, 



32. In high tides, in the latter end of May and beginning oF 

 June, the Cuttle-Fift (g), is frequently brought on more with the 

 lea-weeds. It is furnilhed with ten horns, with which it rows 

 itfelf in the water, as with oars ; and when in any danger it 

 efcapes by difcolouring the water with an inky liquor. Hence 

 it is called by fome the ink-fim ; and from one half of it being 

 invefted with a membrane, like a leg within a flocking, it is 

 called by others, the Hofe or Stocking-FiJlo. Its fubftance feems to- 

 be a kind of pulp. It has only one bone, and that in the back ; 

 ufed by filverfmiths in burnifhing plate. It has fpots on the 1 

 back, fomewhat refembling thofe of a trout. 



33. Of our FreJ]j-Water-FiJ})es, the Salmon (h)\s the mod valuable. 

 It is fo plentiful in the Tweed, that the annual export of that 

 fingle article from Berwick is very confiderable. It is frequent' 

 in all our other rivers towards the fea, in the A/n, Coquet, and 

 Tyne, but the 7wm/-falmon has the preference. It is recorded of 

 an alderman at Neivcaftle, Francis Anderfon, Efq;- that dropping his 

 gold-feal-ring from his finger into the Tyne, as he was leaning 

 over the bridge, it was found in the belly of a Salmon, bought in 

 the market by one of his own fervants.. It is now in the pofief- 

 fion of Mr. Edward Anderfon, his defcendant, a merchant of that 



Sp. 55. Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 114. n. 303. SAND-EELS. LAUNCES. Dale. Harw, 

 p. 426. n. 4. 



(g) Sepia. Cbarlet. Fife. p. 51. n. 2. Sah. Fife. p. 165. Rind, i. p. 498. Dale. Pharm. 

 p. 361. Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 366. n. 1281. CuTTLE-FisH. Cbarlet. 1. c. INK-FISH. 

 HOSE or STOCKING-FISH. Leigh's LANCASHIRE, with a good Icon, bySttttt. 



(h) Salmo nobilis. Scbonef. Icht. p. 64. Salmo. Rtmd. Fife. p. 167. Sah. Fife. p. 100. 

 Cbarlet. Fife. p. 31. n. i. Will. Fife. p. 189. Raj. Syn. Fife. p. 63. Salmo roftro infra 

 inferiorem maxillam faspe prominente. Artedl. gen. n. Syn. 22. Sp. 48. Linn. Faun. Suec. 

 p. 115. n, 306.. 



corpo- 



