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denoted by letters with A. The Kendal are by 

 figures, to 20. 



Hints to Anglers. Fish with face towards the 

 sun, and you will be more certain of sport, as you 

 frighten the fish by the shadow of your rods and 

 bodies on the water, and get no sport, by your 

 back to the sun. Salmonia. 



The Huso. This fish is only found in the Cas- 

 pian and Black Seas, and the Don and the Volga, 

 and other rivers that flow into them. It is stated 

 to be much larger than the sturgeon. Pallas de- 

 scribes one that weighed two thousand eight hun- 

 dred pounds, which was conjectured to be near 

 forty feet long. Its ordinary length is stated to 

 be twenty- five feet. The number of this species 

 far exceed those of the sturgeon. The caviar is 

 usually made of its spawn, which is nearly a third 

 in weight to the whole fish, from whence we may 

 conjecture the infinite number of eggs it contains. 



At the last meeting of the Medico Botanical 

 Society, Dr. Hancock read a paper on a plant 

 called comiparu by the natives of Guiana. It is 

 used to intoxicate fish, so as to enable the fisher 

 to catch them by the hand. It flowers at all sea- 

 sons of the year ; the flowers are small and white, 

 always covered with leaves. 



New Monthly Mag. June, 1835. 



