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land, Iceland, and Newfoundland, and is said to be 

 one of the chief supports of the Greenlanders, and 

 a sort of desert at their most delicate repasts. The 

 inhabitants of Iceland are said to dry great quanti- 

 ties of it, in order to serve as a winter food for their 

 cattle, whose flesh is apt to acquire an oily flavour 

 in consequence. This fish lives at sea the greatest 

 part of the year, but in April, May, June, and July, 

 comes in incredible shoals into the bays, where im- 

 mense multitudes are taken in nets, and afterwards 

 dried on the rocks. AVhen fresh they are by some 

 said to have the smell of a cucumber, though others 

 affirm that the scent is highly unpleasant. They 

 feed on small crabs and other marine insects, as 

 well as on the smaller fuci and confervas, on which 

 they are also observed to deposit their ova. 



GREAT-TOOTHED SALMON. 



Salmo Dentex. S, argenteiis, supra fusco albidoque lineatm^ 



pinnis albidis, caudce dimidio inferior e rubro. Lin. Gmel. p* 



1384. Forsk, Arab. p. Q6. 

 Silvery Salmon^ lineated above with brown and whitish, with 



white finsj and lower half of the tail red. 

 Cyprinus Dentex. C. pinna ani radiis viginti sex, ore dmtibus 



mdique molaribus, Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 53\. 



Mentioned by Forskal in his Fauna Arabica: 

 chiefly distinguished by its very large, subulate ex- 

 serted teeth, in which it differs from the rest of the 

 Salmon tribe : gill-membrane furnished with only 

 four rays. Inhabits the Nile^ and is also found in 

 Siberia. 



