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Rh the fih were increaed in fine, and were alted in great abundance. Heraclea, Tium, and Amatris, all of which lie to the wet of Sinope, enjoyed the advantages of the fihery in till greater perfection, and were deeply engaged in it, as appears from Ælian. In hort, the advantages of the fihery to thoe who inhabited the coails were uch, that they abandoned all other means of getting a livelihood, and applied themelves entirely to fiihing, though the ground in the neighbourhood was fertile, and the adjacent mountains rich in minerals.

As the fih proceeded further wetward, they appear to have been more valued. A poetical glutton, of the name of Architratus, cited by Athenæus, extols- as a delicacy that part of the fih, which lies next the tail, pickled and broiled, as we do a red herring; and adds, that Byzantium is the metropolis of this article of luxury; in which entirnent another proficient in luxurious eating concurs. The Pontic alted meats were highly eteemed in Greece, as early as the time of Herodotus, Plato, Aritophanes, and Polybius, and probably long before. Even Herod is cited, as peaking of the Boporus as a market for thee kinds of alted delicacies. They went under different names, but were motly made of the tunny-fih, and were denominated, either from the ize of the animal, the parts of it ued, or the hape of the pieces into which it was cut. Thus the parts of the large fih