Caviare, 
68 S TUR GE ON Gee 
falmon nets. It feems a fpiritlefs fifh, making no 
manner of refiftance when entangled, but is drawn 
out of the water like a lifelefs lump. It is a ith that 
is feldom taken far out at fea, but frequents fuch parts 
as are not remote from the eftuaries of great rivers. 
It is admired for the delicacy and firmnefs of its 
flefh, which is white as veal, and extremely good 
when roafted. It is generally pickled. The moft 
we receive comes either from the Baltic rivers, or 
North America: thofe cured at Pillau have been, till 
of late, in the greateit repute; but thro’ the encou- _ 
ragement given by the fociety inftituted for pro- 
moting trade and manufactures, the fturgeon from 
our colonies begins to rival thofe of the Baltic. 
Great numbers are taken during fummer in the 
lakes Frifche-haff, and Curifch-baff near Pillau, in 
large nets made of fmall cord. The adjacent fhores 
are formed into diftri€ts, and farmed out to compa- 
nies of fifhermen, fome of which are rented for fix 
thoufand guilders, or near three hundred pounds 
per annum. 
They are found in vaft abundance in the American 
rivers in May, Fune, and uly, at which time they 
leap fome yards out of the water, and falling on 
their fides, make a noife to be heard in ftill weather 
at fome miles diftance*. 
Caviare is made of the roes of this, and alfo of 
all the other forts of fturgeons, dried, falted, and 
packed up clofe. The beft is faid to be made of 
thofe of the Sterlez**, a {mall fpecies frequent in 
© Catefry Carol. App. 33. ** Strablenberg’s Hift. Ruffia, 337- 
the 
