THE DOLPHIN. 
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dandles , the ami* were vanquifbed, and put to a total 
rout by their victorious enemies *. 
The dolphin, like fome other kinds of cetaceous ani- 
mals, have been obfeived to emigrate from one fea to 
another. They have been known to pafs from the Me- 
diterranean into the Bind Sea ; and after having re- 
mained for fome time there, to return to their former 
haunts. When they are taken, as fometimes happens, in 
the nets placed for other fifties, if they are not ftrangled 
by their own efforts to efcape, they will live for a long 
time after being brought to the lhore : One has been 
carried alive from Tvlontpellicr to Lyons f. 
In former times the flelh of the dolphin was reckoned 
a great delicacy : it was bought by princes at a high 
price, and presented at their moll formal entertainments. 
This Rondeletius declares, he had more than once ob- 
ferved, though not among his own countrymen, where 
the praftice of eating thefe fifties had entirely gone into 
difufe. This was alfo the cafe in England in the days 
of Willoughby %. At a more ancient period, however, 
thefe fifties were not only eaten, but held in as high re- 
pute among the Englifb , as any other nation. 13 r. Cams 
fay-, that one which was taken in his time, was thought 
a prefetit worthy of the Duke of Norfolk, who diftribu- 
ted part of it among his friends. It was roafted and 
drefied with porpeffe fauce ; a compofkion of fine white 
bread mixed with vinegar and fugar §. 
The fnout of the dolphin is narrow and pointed, not 
unlike 
4 Hift. Pifcium. 
f Vide Gefner and Rondeletius. 
| Vide Hill. Pifcium lib. ii. p. Jt. 
5 Caij opufcula,p. is 6. 
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