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in length. It arrives in fpring and autumn, and in both feafons is full of {pawn, 
and {mells like a fmelt. 
The Jnnyagha is another fmall kind, about five inches long, and not unlike 
the S. Albula of Linnzus. It is a rare fpecies, and found but in few rivers. 
Dee berks Vie Get Ae LO; 
The moft fingular is the Ouzk, or Salmo Catervarius of SretieR. It belongs to 
the O/meri of Linnazus. Swims in immenfe fhoals on the eaftern coaft of Kamt/- 
chatka, and the new-difcovered iflands, where it is often thrown up by the fea to the 
height of fome feet, upon a large extent of fhore : is exceflively unwholefome as 
a food, and caufes fluxes even in dogs. It never exceeds feven inches in length. 
Juft above the fide-line is a rough fafcia, befet with minute pyramidal feales, 
ftanding upright, fo as to appear like the pile of fhag: their ufe is moft curious— 
while they are {wimming, and even when they are flung on fhore, two, three, on 
even as many as ten, will adhere as if glued together, by means of this pile, info- 
much that if one is taken up, all the reft are taken up at the fame time. 
Toconclude this lift of Kamt/chatkan Salmon, I muft add the Salmo Thymallus, ox 
Grayling ; the S. Cylindraceus, before defcribed ; the Salmo Albula, Lin. Syft. 512; 
and the Salmo Eperlanus, or common Smelt, to thofe which afcend the rivers.—~ 
For this account I am indebted to Doctor PauLas, who extracted it from the 
papers of STELLER, for the ufe of this Work. 
The Herring, both the common and the variety, found in the gulph of 
Bothnia, called the Membras, and by the Suedes, Stroeming, Faun. Suec. p. 128, vifit 
thefe coafts in fhoals, perhaps equal to thofe of Europe. There are two feafons, 
the firft about the end of AZay, the fecond in Oéfober. ‘The firft fpecies are re- 
markably fine and large * ; they afcend the rivers, and enter the lakes : the autumnal 
migrants are clofed up in them by the fhifting of the fand at the mouths of the 
entrance, and remain confined the whole winter. ‘The natives catch them 
in fummer in nets; and in winter in moft amazing numbers, by breaking holes 
in the ice, into which they drop their nets, then cover the opening with mats, 
and leave a {mall hole for one of their companions to peep through, and obferve 
the coming of the fifh; when they draw up their booty: and ftring part on pack- 
thread for drying ; and from the remainder they prefs an oil white as the butter 
of Finland t+. 
The fea, on which thefe people depend for their very exiftence, is finely 
adapted for the retreat and prefervation of fifh. It does not confift of a level 
uniform bottom, liable to be ruffled with ftorms, but of deep vallies and lofty 
® Voyage, iii. 450. + Defer, Kamt{ch. 435, 
Ir 2 mountains 
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HERRING. 
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