Class IV. RIVER TROUT SALMON. 399 



Salar. Ausonius Mosel. 88. inferiore longiore. Arted. *>• River 



Salar et varius, Trotta. Sal- Synon. 23. 



vian. g6. Salmo Fario. Lin. Syst. 5QQ, 



La Truitte. Belon, 274. Gm. Lin. 1367. 



Trutta fluviatilis. Rondel, flu- Laxoring, Forell, Stenbit. 



viat. l6g. Gesner pise. 1002. Faun. Suec. No. 348. 



Foren, Forellen. Schonevelde, La Truite. Block ichth. i.121. 



77. tab. 22. 



A Trout. Wlh Ickth.lQQ.Raii Le Salmone truite. De la Ce-> 



Syn.pisc.6s. pede Hist, des Poissons,v° 



S. maculis rubris, maxilla I89. 



-I-T is matter of surprize that this common fish 

 has escaped the notice of all the antients, except 

 Ausonius : it is also singular, that so delicate a 

 species should be neglected at a time when the 

 folly of the table was at its height, and that the 

 epicures should overlook a fish which is found 

 in such quantities in the lakes of their neighbor- 

 hood, when they ransacked the universe for 

 dainties. The milts of Murantz were brought 

 from one place ; the livers of Scari from ano- 

 ther ;* and Oysters even from so remote a spot 

 as our Sandwich :f but there was, and is, a fa- 

 shion in the article of good living. The Romans 

 seem to have despised the trout, the piper, and 

 the doree; and we believe Mr. Qidn himself 



* Suetonius, vita Vitellii. f Juvenal Sal. IV. 141. 



