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accustomed route, which for the most part is within a very 
federate distance of the land, and consequently is much 
influenced by the bendings of the coast, thus affording to 
many districts an opportunity for engaging in an exciting and 
successful adventure. It could only be in diminished numbers 
that these successive squadrons could approach the narrow 
passage of the Hellespont, of their manner in urging their 
tV'ay through which some curious information is given to us 
by ancient writers. It was observed that as they rapidly swam 
up'vvard it was their constant custom to range along the shores 
to the right, until they came to the narrowest part of the 
Straits which separate Europe from Asia, where stands a rock 
of remarkable whiteness, at the prospect of which they become 
greatly terrified, and rush to the opposite side, in which 
Neighbourhood a prosperous fishery was in consequence carried 
°Nj and which, from the wealth it brought was termed the 
Golden Horn. This part of the coast is commemorated by 
the poet Ovid in his melancholy voyage to the place of his 
anishmentj and from him we learn that it was called by 
the Romans Tunny Bay. When, on the other hand, the 
J-unnies are about to leave the Black Sea, they wait the 
opportunity of a north wind, and hasten along in the opposite 
Course to that by which they went upward; a change which 
observers attempted to account for by supposing that these 
fishes possess moderate clearness of sight in one eye only, 
S'Od that for the sake of safety the blind eye is directed to 
that side from which but little danger was apprehended. In 
their different stages of growth these fishes were known by 
different names, the very young being called Cordyla, and 
"'Yhen somewhat older Palamis; but there is little doubt on 
the other hand that two or three separate species were thus 
confounded together, as well as at last under the general name 
Tunny. 
1 he Tunny fishery has always been a source of wealth to 
t c countries that have been engaged to it; but we need not 
describe particularly the ways in which it is at present carried 
on by the fishermen of Italy, and which appear to differ in 
Some considerable degree from those which were practised in 
''^ory early times. After referring to Herodotus, therefore, who 
Nientions the net set for the school of Tunnies, (B. 1.) as a 
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