240 (Se A EO ME Gh oN Clafs IV. 
They are in feveral countries a great article of 
commerce, being cured different ways, by falting, 
pickling, and drying: there are ftationary fitheries 
in Iceland, Norway *, and the Baltic, but we be- 
lieve no where greater than thofe at Colraine in Ire- 
land; 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 Aquitaine: Aufonius enumerates it among 
thofe of the Mo/el. 
Nec te puniceo rutilantem vifcere Salmo 
Tranfierem, late cujus vaga verbera caudae 
Gurgite de medio Jummas referuntur in undas, 
Occultus placido cum proditur equore pulfus. 
Tu loricato Jquamofus petore, frontem 
Lubricus, et dubia faciurus fercula cena, 
Tempora longarum fers incorrupta morarum, 
Prafignis maculis capitis, cut prodiga nutat 
élvus, opimatoque fluens abdomine venter. 
Nor I thy fcarlet belly will omit, : 
O Salmon, whofe broad tail with whifking ftrokes 
Bears thee up from the bottom of the ftream 
Quick to the furface ; and the fecret lafh 
Below, betrays thee in the placid deep. 
Arm’d in thy flaky mail, thy gloffy {nout 
Slippery efcapes the fither’s fingers; elfe 
Thou makeft a feaft for niceft judging palates: 
And yet long uncorrupted thou remaineft : 
With {potted head remarked, and wavy fpread, 
Of paunch immenfe o’erflowing wide with fat. 
ANONYMOUS. 
A fcends The falmon is a fifh that lives both in the falt and 
“ve: frefh waters, quitting the fea at certain feafons for 
* There was about the year 1578 a pretty confiderable fal- 
mon fifhery at Cola, in Ruffian Lapland. Hackluyt. vay. 1. 416. 
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