SALMO HUCHO. 2?1 



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, &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 



