GasIV. SAL MON, 247 
A few miles higher up the river is a ware, where 
a confiderable number of fifh that efcape the nets 
are taken. We were lately informed, that in the 
year 1760 about 320 tons were taken in the Cranna 
fifhery. 
The falmon are cured in this manner: they are 
firft fplit, and rubbed with fine falt; and after ly- 
ing in pickle in great tubs, or refervoirs, for fix 
weeks, are packed up with layers of coarfe brown 
Spanifo falt in cafks, 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. 
The falmon is a fifh 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 fubjec&t to the fame variety: the belly 
filvery : the nofe fharp pointed: the end of the un- 
der jaw in the males often turns up in form of a 
hook ; fometimes this curvature is very confidera- 
ble: it is faid that they lofe this hook when they re- 
turn to the fea. ; 
The teeth are lodged in the jaws and on the 
tongue, and are flender, but very fharp. 
The tail is a little forked. ‘ 
R | I. The 
Defers 
