6 . THE DOLPHIN". 



danel/es, the cimi^ were vanquifhed, and put to a total 

 rout hy their viftorious enemies *. 



The dolphin, like fome otlier kinds of cetaceous ani- 

 mals, have been obfeived to emigrnte from one fea to 

 another. They have been known to pafs from the Me- 

 diterrajiean into the Black Sea ; and after having re- 

 mained for fome time there, to return to their former 

 haunis. When they are taken, as fometimes happens, in 

 the netb placed for other fifties, if they are not ftrangled 

 by their own efforts to efcape, they will live for a long 

 timr- after being brought to the (hore : One has been 

 carried alive from Montpellicr to Lyons f . 



In former times the flefh of the dolphin was reckoned 

 a great delicacy : it was bought by princes at a high 

 price, and prefented at their mod formal entertainments. 

 This Rondeletins declares, he had more than once ob- 

 ferved, though not among his own countrymen, w'here 

 the praftice of eating thefe fifties had entirely gone into 

 difufe. This was alfo the cafe in England in the days 

 of Willoughhy X- At a more ancient period, however, 

 thele fifties were not only eaten, but held in as high re- 

 pute among the EngUfoy as any other nation. Dr. Caius 

 fays, that one which was taken in his time, was thought 

 a prefent worthy of the Duke of Norfolk, who diiiribu- 

 ted part of it among his frierids. It was roafted and 

 dreft'ed with porpelTe fauce j a compofition of fine white 

 bread mixed with vinegar and fugar §. 



The tnout of the dolphin is narrow and pointed, not 



ualike 



* Hift. Pifcium. 

 f Fide GLfaer and Rondeletlus. 

 i- Fidi Hift. Pifcium lib. ii. p. 3I. 

 § Caij opul'cula, p. 116. 



