CHAPTER IV. 
THE S ALM ON. 
This noble fish was known to the world a3 early as the days 
of the Romans. Pliny speaks of them as being in the rivers 
of Aquitaine. They are found at the present day in the 
waters of Prance, England, Ireland and Scotland, and on this 
continent as far north as Greenland. They are found in the 
greatest abundance in Ireland and Scotland. In some of tho 
rivers of the latter country, large rents are paid for these 
fisheries. In England and Wales, at certain seasons, they 
have been taken by thousands in a day, and on some occa- 
sions in such abundance that they have been fed to the swine. 
“ In Scotland, they have been so plenty, that the farmer’s 
servants have stipulated to have them but twice a week for 
food!” 
Smith, in his “ History of the Fishes of Massachusetts,” 
relates the following : “ Captain Charles Kendall, a respect- 
able and intelligent navigator of Boston, assured us, that 
when on the northwest coast of America, within a few years, 
he stood in a small stream that came leaping down the crags 
of a mountain, in which these delightful fishes were urging 
their way in such astonishing crowds, with hardly water 
enough to cover their backs, that ho stood with an axe and 
killed hundreds of them as they passed between his feet. He 
saw birds of prey dive down from the long branches of trees 
