. American fishes [microform] : a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes; Fishing; Poissons; Pêche sportive. SALMO SALAK. THE SALMON. Nee te puniceo rutllantem viscere, Salmo Transieriin, lata; cujiis vaga verl)era cauda; Giirgite ile medio siimmas refeniiitur in undas, Occultus jilacido cum proditiir ;i;quore pulsus, Tu loricato siiuamosus pectorc, frmitem Lubricus ct dul)ia; facturus fercula ciL-nai Tempora longarum fcrs iucorrupta morarum, macidis rapilis, cui jirodiga nutat Alvus, opimatu
. American fishes [microform] : a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes; Fishing; Poissons; Pêche sportive. SALMO SALAK. THE SALMON. Nee te puniceo rutllantem viscere, Salmo Transieriin, lata; cujiis vaga verl)era cauda; Giirgite ile medio siimmas refeniiitur in undas, Occultus jilacido cum proditiir ;i;quore pulsus, Tu loricato siiuamosus pectorc, frmitem Lubricus ct dul)ia; facturus fercula ciL-nai Tempora longarum fcrs iucorrupta morarum, macidis rapilis, cui jirodiga nutat Alvus, opimatuiiue llueus abdomiue venter. * AusoNius : TIw Moselii', 97-105. 44 TN the countrey of Acjuitaine or Ciuicnnc in FrauiK c, tlie River Sal- mon passeth all other sea fishes whatsoever.'' So wrote I'liny eiij;hteen hundred years ago, and his was the first allusion in literature to Sa/i/io salar. Hundreds of members of the family are iidw known to science, but this one si)ecies still stands ])reeminent, like a Highland chieftain, needing no name save that of his clan. The Salmon streams of ancient Britain and Gaul were known to the Romans, who aj)i)reciated fully the worth of their scaled treasures, and our early British ancestors were e(iually familiar Avith the Salmon, as we know from the Saxon names which were applied to it, many of which still survive both in l-".ngland and America— parr, peal, penk, smolt, grilse, kipper, bagget, and a dozen more. The reader will recall Walter Scott's generalization, that while our names for animals as served upon the table,—beef, veal, mutton, ])ork.—are of Nor- man origin, the names of the animals themselves are still those by which they *" Nor will I pass thee, O Salmon, blushing with thy red flesh, the roving strokes of whose broad tail are home from the middle of the stream to the top of the water, at such time as the hidden lash betrays itself on the cah • surface. Now, clothed in scaly armor, slippery as to thy fore p
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