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 Benvick, and in some of the rivers of Scot- 

 land.^ 



The salmon was known to the Romans, but 

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

 found in the rivers of Aquitaine: Ausonius enu- 

 merates it among those of the Moselle, 



Nee te puniceo ruiilantern viscere Salmo 

 Transierem, latce cujus vaga verbera caudes 

 Gurgite de medio summas referuntur hi un&as, 

 Occultus placido cum proditur cequore pulsus. 

 Tu loricato squamosus peciore , frontem 

 Lubricus, et dubice facturus fercula ccence, 

 Tempora longarumfers incorrupta morarum, 

 Prcesignis maculis capitis, cui prodiga nutat 

 Alvus, opimatoque 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 1578, a pretty considerable sal- 

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

 i. 416. 



"t They are never known to frequent those parts of the 

 English coast which are composed of chalk. 



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