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ANCHOVY. 



A few of these fish are caught every year in 

 Dagenham Breach, with the net only. 



BELUGA, OR GLANIS. 



A large river fish in the Volga, -a species of 

 sturgeon. The beluga is five or six yards long, 

 and thick in proportion. The Volga also yields 

 the esotrin, another very large fish, fat and deli- 

 cious ; it abounds besides with salmon, sterlitz, 

 a most delicious fish. Strahlenberg , in his me- 

 moirs, notices the beluga, as the largest eatable 

 river fish in the world, he had seen one fifty-six 

 feet in length, and eighteen in girth. 



P. H. Bruce. 



Though the beluga is an inhabitant of the 

 Black Sea, it is often caught at Presburg, five 

 hundred German miles from the Danube ; it is, 

 perhaps, to free itself from animalculse, infesting 

 the Black Sea, that it goes so far, when it is not 

 spawning time. Mag. Nat. Hist. 



Glanis, or beluga, the largest fish in the Volga^ 

 is very troublesome to bathers ; it makes its way 

 through nets, and every obstacle, making room 

 for other fish to pass in the spring ; its length is 

 from seven to eight feet, and it is very heavy. 



Pallas' Voyage. 



