iSo SALMON. Class IV. 



Slippery ^fcapes the fiiher's fingers ; elfe 

 Thou makeft a feaii for niceil judging palates : 

 And yet long uncorrupted thou remaineft : 

 "With fpotted head remarked, and wavy fpread. 

 Of paunch imrnenfe o'orflowing wide with fat. 



Anonymous, 



Ascends The lalmon is a fiili that lives both in the fait 



Rivers* ^j^j f.,^^ waters, quitting the fea at certainffieafons 

 for the fake ofdepofiting itsfpawn in fecurity, in the 

 gravelly beds of rivers remote from their mouths. 

 There are fcarce any difficulties but what they 

 will overcome, in order to arrive at places fit for 

 their purpofe : they will afcend rivers hundreds of 

 miles, force themfelves againfl; the m.oil rapid 

 llreams, and Ipring with amazing agility over ca- 

 taracts of feveral feet in height. SalmiOn are fre- 

 quently taken in the Rhine as high up as Bafil-^ 

 Salmon they gain the fources of the Lapland rivers'^ in 

 fpite of their torrcnt-iike currents, and furpafs the 

 perpendicular falls oi Leixflip-\-^ KerJierth'^^ and 

 Pont ahcrglajlyn § ; thefe laft feats we have been 

 witnefs to, and feen the efforts of fcores of fifh, fome 

 of which fucceeded, others mifcarried during the 

 time of our (lay. 



* Schef. Lap. 11^. 

 t Near Dubli-a. 



t On the Ti^-oy in South Wales, which Michael Drayton cele"- 

 brates in his Polyolbicti on this account. 



§ Amidil Sno^-wdoii hills, a wild fcene in the ftyle oi Salvator 

 Ro/a, 



It 



