334 COMMON SALMON. Class IV. 



Arm'd in thy flaky mail, thy glossy snout 

 Slippery escapes the fisher's fingers ; else 

 Thou makest a feast for nicest-judging palates : 

 And yet long uncorrupted thou remainest : 

 With spotted head remarked, and wavy spread, 

 Of paunch immense o'erflowing wide with fat. 



Anonymous. 

 Ascends The salmon is a fish that lives both in the 



Rivers. . • ... 



salt and fresh waters, quitting the sea at certain 

 seasons for the sake of depositing its spawn in 

 security, in the gravelly beds of rivers remote 

 from their mouths. There are scarcely any dif- 

 ficulties but what they will overcome, in order 

 to arrive at places fit for their purpose: they 

 will ascend rivers for hundreds of miles, force 

 themselves against the most rapid streams, and 

 spring with amazing agility over cataracts of 

 several feet in height. Salmon are frequently 

 taken in the Rhine as high up as Basil ; they 

 Salmon g am the sources of the Lapland rivers * in spite 



AjEAPS. 



of their torrent-like currents, and surpass the 

 perpendicular falls of Ltixslip^ Kennerth,% 

 and Pont aberglaslyn ;§ these last feats we 

 have been witness to, and seen the efforts of 



* Scheff. Lap. 139- f Near Dublin. 



\ On the Tivy in South Wales, which Michael Drayton ce- 

 lebrates in his Polyolbion on this account. 



§ Amidst Snowdon hills, a wild scene in the style of Salvator 

 Rosa. 



