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targue. The only part besides the myology of mackerel 

 which the ancients thought well of, were the gills and 

 gnts ; of which last, as we have seen, they made the fa- 

 mous fish-sauce garum. 



The Parian colias would appear, from the Greek line, 

 ' Fair Paros, coUas' prolific nurse,' to have been as highly 

 favoured in Greece as were those of New Carthage in 

 Spain ; and as garum originated in Greece, prohably it 

 may have first been manufactured there, and from thence 

 introduced into Iberia. 



No fish spoils so soon in the keeping as mackerel, and 

 of no other accordingly is the sale legalized on Simday : 



Law order'd that tlie Sunday siould have rest, 

 And that no nymph her noisy food should sell. 

 Except it were 'new milk' or ' mackerel.'* 



' Argent, on a chevron between three mackerel gules, 

 a rose with a chief chequey of the first and second,' are 

 the arms of Dr. Macbride, the learned Principal of Mag- 

 dalen Hall, Oxford.f 



S word-Fish. 



What Fury, say, artificer of Ul, 



Arm'd thee, O Xiphias, with thy pointed biUPJ 



Having other families of fish waiting to be introduced 

 to the reader, we must not tarry too long over the pre- 

 sent iuteresting group of scombers ; our remaimng no- 

 tices, therefore, of the sword and pilot fish, the caranx. 



* Eing's Cookery. If we wanted precedent for this practice, 

 we might find it ia Nehemiah : ' there dwelt men of Tyre also in 

 Judah, which brought fish and all manner of wine, and sold them 

 on the sabbath to the children of Judah and in Jerusalem.' 



t Moule. 



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 drjpiovpyos ciypios. — Soph. 



