294 S A L M O N. Class IV. 



are taken. We were lately informed, that in the 

 year iy66 about 320 tons were taken in the Cran- 

 »^ fifliery. 



The falmon are cured in this manner: they are 

 firft fplit, and rubbed with fine fait- and after ly- 

 ing in pickle in great tubs, or refervoirs, for fix 

 weeks, are packed up with layers of coarfe brown 

 Spanijh fait in caflcs, fix of which make a ton. Thefe 

 are exported to Leghorn and Venice at the price of 

 twelve or thirteen pounds per ton, but formerly 

 from fixteen to twenty-four pounds each. 

 Descrif. The falmon is a nfh fo generally known, that a 



very brief defcription will ferve. The largeft we 

 ever heard of weighed feventy four pounds. The 

 color of the back and fides are grey, fometimes 

 fpotted with black, fometimes plain : the covers 

 of the gills are fubje6l to the fame variety : the 

 belly filvery : the nofe fharp pointed : the end of 

 the under jaw in the males often turns up in form 

 of a hook ; fometimes this curvature is very confi- 

 derable : it is faid that they lofe this hook when 

 they return to the fea. 



The teeth are lodged in the jaws and on the 

 tongue, and are {lender, but very iharp. 

 The tail is a little forked. 



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