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CHAPTER VII. 
STURGEON-SPEARING—-MANSUCKER—CLAMS. 
Tue Sturgeon found in North-western waters 
differs only in some unimportant specific dis- 
tinctions from the one living in the pond of the 
Zoological Society’s Gardens, in the Regent’s 
Park. Accipenser transmontanus is the name 
given by Sir J. Richardson to sturgeon that 
frequent rivers that flow into the St. Lawrence, 
on the east side of the Rocky Mountains, but 
unknown in streams that fall into the Arctic 
Ocean. On the western side sturgeon abound 
in the Columbia, Fraser, and most other rivers 
as far north as lat. 53° N. It is certainly not a 
handsome fish to look at, reminding one of a 
shark in armour; yet, clad as he is from head 
to tail in bony mail, every movement is easy 
and graceful. 
Sp. Ch.—Five rows of plates encase the body: 
the row along the back is most prominent, and 
contains fifteen shields. The cheeks are flat, the 
