Class IV. SALMON. S85 



fame fpecies with the European kind is not very 

 certain. 



They are in feveral countries a great article of 

 commerce, being cured different ways, by faking, 

 pickling, and drying : there are ftationary fiiheries 

 in Iceland^ Norwa;^ *, and the Baltic^ but we be- 

 lieve no where greater than thofe at Colraine m 

 IrelarM'y and in Great Britain at Berwick^ and in 

 fome of the rivers of Scotland. 



The falmon was known to the Romans, but not 

 to the Greeks : Pliny fpeaks of it as a fifh found in 

 the rivers of Aq^uitaine : Aufonius enumerates it a- 

 mong thofe of the MofeL 



Nee te pumceo rutilantem 'vifcere Salmo 

 ^ranjierenty lata cujus <vaga -verbera caiid^ 

 Gurgife de medio fumtnas refer untur in undas, 

 Occuhus placido cum proditur aquore pulfiis<. 

 Tu loricato fquamofus peSiore, front etn 

 LuhricuSy et dubia fadurus fercula c^nce, 

 Tempora longariim fers incorrupt a morarum^ 

 Prcejignis maculis capitis, ciii prodiga nut at' 

 Alvusy opimaioque fuens abdomine center. 



Nor I thy fcarlet belly will omit, 



O Salmon, whofe broad tail with whifking ftroke? 



Bears thee up from the bottom of the ftream 



Quick to the furface ; and the fecret lalti 



Below, betrays thee in the placid deep. 



Arm'd in thy flaky mail, thy gloiTy fnout 



* There was, about the year 1578, a pretty conilderable 

 falmon fiihery at Qah^ in Rujpan Lapland, Hackluyt, ^oy^ 

 T. 416. 



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