ore hve IVEY ATY Cir Kat RO ie Ty 221 
Genus XXX. Seven branchioftegous rays. 
Several fmall fins between the dorfal 
fin and the tail. MackREL. 
he Whe Mo A en ROE Be 
Sx6uboos. Arift. Hift. an. lib, Makerel. Schonevelde. 66. 
Vi. ¢. 17.1x.¢.2, Atheneus. Mackrell, or Macarel. Wil. 
ib. iii. 121. vil. 321. Op- Icth. 181. Raii fyn. pile. 58. 
pian Halieut. 1. 142. Scomber pinnulis quinque in 
Scomber. Ovid. Halieut. 94. extremo dorfo, polypterygio, 
Phinii lib. ix. c. 15, xxxi.¢.8. 
Macarello, Scombro. Sa/vian. ted. fynon. 48. 
2AL Scomber Scomber. Lin. f/f. 
Le Macreau. Belon. 197. 492. Gronov. Zooph. No. 304. 
Scomber, Rondel. 233. Ge/ner Mackrill. Faun. fuec. No. 339. 
pyc. 841. (pro 861.) 
HE mackrel is a fummer fifh of paffage that 
vifits our fhores in vaft fhoals, It is lefs ufe» 
ful than other fpecies of gregarious fifh, being very 
tender, and unfit for carriage; not but that it may 
be preferved by pickling and falting, a method, we 
believe, practifed only in Cornwall **, where it proves 
a great relief to the poor during winter. 
It was a fifh greatly efteemed by the Romans, be- 
caufe it furnifhed the pretious Garum, a fort of pickle 
that gave a high relifh to their fauces, and was be- 
fides ufed medicinally. It was drawn from different 
* This is the firft opportunity we have had of looking into 
Salvianus, whofe Italian fynonyms we make ule of, 
** Borlafe Cornwall, 269. 
P4 fying 
aculeo brevi ad anum. 4r- 
Garum, 
