. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes. SALMO SALAR. THE SALMON. Nee te puniceo rutilantem viscere, Salmo Transierim, latae cujus vaga verbera caudae Gurgite de medio summas referuntur in undas, Occultus placido cum proditur sequore pulsus. Tu loricato squamosus pectore, frontem Lubricus et dubise facturus fercula coenEe Tempora longarum fers incorrupta morarum, Prsesignis macuHs capitis, cui prodiga nutat Alvus, opimatoque fluens abdomine venter. * AusoNius : The Moselle, 97-105. 44
. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes. SALMO SALAR. THE SALMON. Nee te puniceo rutilantem viscere, Salmo Transierim, latae cujus vaga verbera caudae Gurgite de medio summas referuntur in undas, Occultus placido cum proditur sequore pulsus. Tu loricato squamosus pectore, frontem Lubricus et dubise facturus fercula coenEe Tempora longarum fers incorrupta morarum, Prsesignis macuHs capitis, cui prodiga nutat Alvus, opimatoque fluens abdomine venter. * AusoNius : The Moselle, 97-105. 44 TN the countrey of Aquitaine or Guienne in Fraunce, the River Sal- mon passeth all other sea fishes whatsoever.'' So wrote Pliny eighteen hundred years ago, and his was the first allusion in literature to Salmo salar. Hundreds of members of the family are now known to science, but this one species still stands preeminent, like a Highland chieftain, needing no name save that of his clan. The Salmon streams of ancient Britain and Gaul were knowiji to the Romans, who appreciated fully the worth of their scaled treasures, and our early British ancestors were equally familiar with the Salmon, as we know from the Saxon names which were applied to it, many of which still survive both in England 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, pork,—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 borne from the middle of the stream to the top of the water, at such time as the hidden lash betrays itself on the calm surface. Now, clothed in scaly armor, slippery as to thy fore part, aud able to constitute a remove for a most excellent dinner, dost bear keeping fresh f
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