OF FISHES. 3 8 9 



corporation. The impreffion is that of Solomon and the queen 

 of Sheba. On the infide, juft under the fignet, the alderman had 

 the effigies of a falmon engraved, with the initial letters of his 

 name on each fide, as a memorial of fo extraordinary an acci- 

 dent, fimilar to what is told of Poly crates^ king of Sapios, by He- 

 rodotus *. 



34. The Salmon-Trout (i) is taken in great plenty in the fame 

 rivers with the falmon. 



3 5. The Whitling-Trout (k), of a long and comprefled form, is 

 taken in the Till and Tweed from ten to twenty inches. It is the 

 moft admired of all the trout-fpecies, the flefli as red as a 



Salmons. 



36. The Aller-Tront (I), ufually large and well grown, is fre- 

 quent in the deep holes of our retired and mady brooks, under " 

 the roots of the Aller, or Alder-tree, from which it has its name. 



37. There is a fmall trout in our alpine rivulets, ufually called, 

 The Rackrider (mj, of great efteem ; the flefh white, but exceed- 



* Bourne's Hift. Nnucaftle upon lyne. p. 130. 



(i) Trutta Taurina, apud nos in NORTHUMBRIA, ab infigni magnitudine. Turn. Epift. 

 ad GRSN. Charlet. Fife. p. 36. n. 2. Trutu Salmonata. Will. Fife. p. 193. Raj. Fife. 

 p. 63. Salmo latus, maculis rubris nigrifque, cauda xqunli. Aitedi. gen. 12. Syn. 24. 

 Sp. 51. Salmo maculis nigris brunneo cinclis ; pinna pedtorali punftis fex. Linn. Faun,- 

 Suec. p. 1 16. p. 308. 



(k) Trutta, WHITLING, di<fta, Nortlumbr. 



(1) Trutta ALLER FANG dicta, NortbumLr. TURN. Epift. prajdiila. 



(m] SHOTE. Cornub. RACKRIDER. Nortbumbr, 



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