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with the Danube, and is never found in rivers of the 

 same districts connected with the Rhine, or Elbe, or 

 in any of them which empty themselves into the 

 Mediterranean ; though trout are common in all these 

 streams, and salmon and sea trout in those connected 

 with the ocean. According to the descriptions of 

 Pallas, it occurs in the rivers of Siberia, and probably 

 exists in those which run into the Caspian ; and it is 

 remarkable, that it is not found where the eel is usual — 

 at least this applies to all the tributary streams of the 

 Danube, and, it is said, to the rivers of Siberia. 

 Wherever I have seen it, there have been always 

 coarse fish — as chub, white fish, bleak, &c, and 

 rivers containing such fish are its natural haunts, for 

 it requires abundance of food, and serves to convert 

 these indifferent poor fish into a better kind of 

 nourishment for man. We will now examine the 

 interior of these fish. You see the stomach is larger 

 than that of a trout, and the stomachs of both are 

 full of small fish. In the larger one there is a chub, 

 a grayling, a bleak, and two or three small carp. 

 The skin you see is thick ; the scales are smaller than 

 those of a trout ; it has no teeth on the palate, and 

 the pectoral fin has four spines more, which, I think, 

 enables it to turn with more rapidity. You will find 

 at dinner, that, fried or roasted, he is a good fish. 

 His flesh is white, but not devoid of curd; and 



