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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 both stomachs 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 thick; the scales 

 are smaller than those of a trout; it has no 

 teeth on the palate, and the pectoral fin has 

 four spines more, which, I think, enables it 

 to turn with more rapidity. You will find 

 at dinner, that fried, or roasted, he is good 

 fish. His flesh is white, but not devoid of 

 curd; and though rather softer than that of 

 a trout, I have never observed in it that 

 muddiness, or peculiar flavour, which some- 

 times occurs in trout, even in perfect season. 

 ORN. I am so much pleased with my 



