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exists only below great falls in streams con- 

 nected with the Danube, and is never found 

 in rivers of the same districts connected with 

 the Rhine, Elbe, or 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 oc- 

 curs in the rivers of Siberia, and probably 

 exists in those that 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, Sec, 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 



