Frank Forester's fish and fishing of the United States and British provinces of North America . 60 SALMONID^. THE SALMON. THE COMMON SALMON.—THE TRUE SALMON. Pink, first yeax-; Smalt, second yeai-; Peel or Grilse, second autumn. SulnioSalar Auctorum, British Fishes, vol. ii. p. 1. Dekay, vol. Salmon Pinks up to six montbs old. Although this noble fish has never been made the subject,so far as I know, of any of the strange and monstrous fableswhich have obtained concerning many others of the inhabitantsof the waters—as for instance the Pike, of which old Izaak tellsus, it is not to be doub
Frank Forester's fish and fishing of the United States and British provinces of North America . 60 SALMONID^. THE SALMON. THE COMMON SALMON.—THE TRUE SALMON. Pink, first yeax-; Smalt, second yeai-; Peel or Grilse, second autumn. SulnioSalar Auctorum, British Fishes, vol. ii. p. 1. Dekay, vol. Salmon Pinks up to six montbs old. Although this noble fish has never been made the subject,so far as I know, of any of the strange and monstrous fableswhich have obtained concerning many others of the inhabitantsof the waters—as for instance the Pike, of which old Izaak tellsus, it is not to be doubted, but that they are bred, some bygeneration, and some not; as namely, of a weed called pickerel-weed, unless learned Gessner be much mistaken; for he says,this weed and other glutinous matter, with the help of thesuns heat, in some particular months, and some ponds adaptedfor it by nature, do become Pikes—still, until within the lastfew years, very little has been known with certainty concerninghim in his infancy, and during the earlier stages of his growth. The Salmon, says Izaak Walton, is accounted the kingof fresh-water fish, and is ever bred in rivers relating to the sea,yet so high or far from it as to admit no tincture of salt or Tin: TIMK Id brackishiu». llr i>&
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