CHAPTER III. 



FISH. 

 THE MACKEREL. 



Scomber Scomber, Liuuasus. 

 vulgaris, Fleni. 



THE mackerel is so well known for the beauty 

 and brilliancy of its colours, the elegance of its 

 form, and its intrinsic value to man as an article 

 of food, both in reference to quantity as well as 

 quality, that it is needless for me to say more. 

 It was supposed by many to be a fish of passage, 

 making, like various kinds of birds, periodical mi- 

 grations, and performing long voyages from north 

 to south at one season of the year, and the reverse 

 at another. 



It does not appear to have been sufficiently con- 

 sidered that fish, inhabiting, as they do, a medium 

 which varies but little either in its temperature 



