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two inches of the tail, was a feries of them, each 
three quarters of an inch in length. ; 
At the end of the pectoral fins were fpines an inch 
and three quarters in length; at the end of the tail 
others three quarters of an inch long. 
Genus VIII. One narrow aperture on each fide. 
The mouth placed far below, tubular 
and without teeth. 
The body long, and often angular... 
STURGEON. 
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Ovucxos. Athen. lib. viii. 315. Schirk.: Kram. 383. 
A’xuvrnosos? Athen. p. 294. ‘Acipenfer corpore  tuberculis 
Acipenfer ? Pliniz lib. ix. c.. 17. {fpinoiis exafperato, Arted. 
Ovidii Halicut ? Le ote Te ' 
L’Efiurgeon, Belon. 89. Acipenter fturio, Lin. fff. 403. 
Acipenfer. Rondel. 410. Gef/ner Muf. Ad. Fred. 54. tab. 18. 
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pife. 2. a ge 2s S 
Sturio. - Ge/ner pife. * Stor. Faun. Juec. No. 299» 
Stoer. Schonevelde. 9. Seb. Muf. ili. 101. tab, 29. 
Sturgeon. Wil. Icth. 239. Rati No. 19. 
Sgn. pifee 2. 
HAT this is the éucxss of Dorion, as quoted 
by Atheneus, is very probable, as well from 
the account he gives of its form, as of its nature. 
He. fays its mouth is always open, with which it 
agrees with the fturgeon, and that it conceals itfelf 
in the hot months: this fhews it to be a fifh of a 
cold nature, which is confirmed by the hiftory of 
the 
