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SALMON 



Class IV. 



XXXIII. Branchioftegous rays unequal in number. 

 SALMON. T^Y/o dorfal fins j the ftco^d thick, and without rays. 



* With teeth. 



143. Salmon. Salmo PIznn Lib. IX. c-. 18. 



Aufonius MofcL 97. 

 Salmone. Saluian. 100. 

 Le Saulmon. Bclon^ 271. 

 Salmo. Rondel, fii-ciat. 167. 



Gefner pifc, 824. Schone- 



<veUey 64. 

 Salmon. Wil. Icth, 189. Raii 



fyn. fife. 63. 



Salmo roftro ultra inferio- 



rem maxillam fepe pro- 



minente. Arted. fynon. 22. 



Salmo Salar Lin, fyfi, 509. 

 Grono~o. 'Ziocph. No. 369. 



Lax. Faun, Suec. No. 122. 



Lachfs. Wulff. Bonifs. No. 

 42. 



THE falmon is a northern fifb, being un- 

 known in the Mediterranean fea, and 0* 

 ther warm climates: it is found in trcMce in fome 

 of the rivers that empty themfelves into the ocean *, 

 and north as far as Greenland \ they are alfo very 

 common in Newfoundland^ and the northern parts 

 oi North America. Salmons are taken in the rivers, 

 of Kamtfchatka-\^ but whether they are of the 



* Rondel- fiuviaf, 167. 

 t Hiji, Kamt/ch, 143. 



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