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for luxurious inventions, firft hit upon the method 

 of fuffocating them in the exquifue Carthaginian * 

 pickle, and afterwards procured a rich fauce from 

 their livers. This is the fame gentleman whom 

 Pliny, in another place, honors with the title of 

 Nepotum omnium altijfmus gurges -f, an expreiTion 

 too forcible to be rendered in our language. 



We have heard of this fpecies being taken on 

 the coaft of Scotland, but had no opportunity of 

 examining it-, and whether it is found m the weft: 

 of England with the other fpecies, or variety, we 

 are not at this time informed. Salvianus . makes 

 it a diilindt fpecies, and fays, that it is of a purple 

 color, ftriped with golden lines, and that it did not 

 commonly exceed a palm in length : no wonder 

 -then that fuch a prodigy as one of fix pounds 

 fhould fo captivate the fancy of the Roman epicure, 



Mr. Ray eftablifhes fome other diftindions, fuch 

 as the firll dorfal ^n having nine rays, and the color 

 of that fin, the tail, and the pedorai fins, being of 

 a very pale purple. 



On thefe authorities v^t form different fpecies of 

 thefe fiih, having only examined what Salvianus 

 and Mr. Ray call the Mullus major, which we 

 defcribe under the title of 



* Garum Sociorum, vide p. 222- 

 t Lib, X. <r, 48. 

 Vol. lit T Mdlus 



