42 ANECDOTES OF FISHES 



The Salmon and Silver Spoon. A gentleman 

 of Uleaborg going by sea to Stockholm, dropped 

 a silver spoon into the water, which was swallowed 

 by a salmon, carried in his belly to Uleaborg, 

 where the fish was accidentally bought by the 

 gentleman's wife, who immediately concluded, 

 on seeing the spoon, that her husband was 

 shipwrecked ; he returned, however, in time to 

 prevent any ill consequences. Acerbis Travels. 



Salmon Paste, or Roe. A very dear article, 

 sold at Liverpool ; seems very attractive. Salmon, 

 trout, eels, are taken by it. Walton, Daniel, 

 Barker, &c. &c. mention it. 



Curious occurrence. Sunday afternoon, be- 

 tween five and six o'clock, several individuals 

 who were standing on the shore beneath the cliffs 

 opposite New Brighton, observed a singular ap- 

 pearance on the water near the mouth of the 

 river. On looking more intently, they discovered 

 that the surface, as far as the organs of vision 

 could extend, was literally alive with an immense 

 shoal of porpoises, which were rolling forward 

 with the most rapacious rapidity, in pursuit of, 

 apparently, a not less numerous flock of salmon. 

 The latter, in their terror, and to avoid their as- 

 sailants, kept continually leaping from the water, 

 and, as their dripping scales glittered in the 

 bright rays of the sun, added an indescribable 



