Class IV. COMMON SALMON. 383 



They are in several countries a great article 

 of commerce, being cured different ways, by 

 salting, pickling, and drying : there are station- 

 ary fisheries in Iceland, Norzvay* and the Bal- 

 tic, but we believe no where greater than those 

 at Coleraine in Ireland ; and in Great Britain 

 at Berwick j and in some of the rivers of Scot- 

 land.-f 



The salmon was known to the Romans, but 

 not to the Greeks : Pliny speaks of it as a fish 

 found in the rivers of Aquitaine: Ausonius enu- 

 merates it among those of the Moselle. 



Nee te puniceo rutilantem viscere Salmo 

 Transierem, latce enjus vaga verhera caudce 

 Gurgite de medio summas refer untur in undas, 

 Occultus placido cum proditur cequore pulsus. 

 Tu loricuto squamosus pectore,frontem 

 Lubricus, et dubice facturus fercula canoe, 

 Tempora longarum fers incorrupta morarum, 

 Prcesignis maculis capitis, cuiprodiga nutat 

 Alvus, opimutoque fluens abdomine venter. 



Nor I thy scarlet belly will omit, 

 O Salmon, whose broad tail with whisking strokes 

 Bears thee up from the bottom of the stream 

 Quick to the surface ; and the secret lash 

 Below, betrays thee in the placid deep. 



* There was, about the year 15/8, a pretty considerable saU- 

 mon fishery at Cola, in Russian Lapland. Hackluyt. voy. 

 i. 416. 



f They are never known to frequent those parts of the 

 English coast which are composed of chalk. 



