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mer the lover in Theocritus threatened to take a def- 
perate leap, on account of his miftrefs’s cruelty. 
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Qrse THs OTNNQZ TKOTIACET OL *Oamis o Verreuse 
Do you not hear? then, rue your Goat-herd’s fate, 
For, from the rock where Olpis doth defery 
The numerous % bunny, Iwill plunge and die. 
The very fame ftation, in all probability, is at this 
time made ule of, as there are very confiderable 
thunny fifheries on the coaft of Sicily, as well as feve- 
ral other parts of the Mediterranean*, where they 
are cured, and make a great article of provifion in 
the adjacent kingdoms. ‘They are caught in nets, 
and amazing quantities are taken, for they come in 
vaft fhoals, keeping along the fhores. 
They grow toa large fize, fometimes being found 
of above a hundred weight. 
They are not common in our feas, but are fome- 
times taken off the weft of Exgland. 
Its form is lefs elegant than that of the mackrel, 
being rather thicker in the middle: the jaws are of 
an equal length; the mouth black within: befides 
the teeth of the jaws, are others in the roof of the 
mouth. 
The firft dorfal fin is placed not remote from the 
head, and confifts of fourteen rays, and is lodged 
in a fmall channel; the fecond is almoft contiguous 
to the other, and has the fame number of rays. 
* Many of them are the fame that were ufed by the antients, 
as we learn from Cfpran and others, 
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