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a Sturgeon (a) s only its Snout is ptoportionabfy 
fhorter and thicker 5 the Skin on the Back is light- 
grey, but under the Beliy it is white, and without 
Scales [b) \ Its Flefh is whiter than Veal ; whence 
die Name Belluga , or the white Fifh 5 and affords a 
much more delicious Difh (c) than Sturgeon. Of its 
Row or Spawn is made the Cavear / and forrse are 
found fo large as to yield from 15 6 to' 200 Weight 
of it. They are found in greateff Plenty, and cfpc- 
cially thofe of the larged: Size (d) in the Rivet 
Volga , about the City of AJlracan (/)• Straten - 
berg fays, he faw one caught in this River 56 
Feet long and is Feet thick; and takes them to 
be the larged River Fifh in the World. They are 
likewife found in other Rivers, as the 'Don^ and 
thofe that flow into the Baltick and Cafpian Sea s. 
I am not certainly informed, neither do Authors 
agree, in what Part of the Fifh this Stone is found 3 
Stralenbergh fays, in the Head and Stomach j 
fome (f) fay, in the Air Bladder 5 odiers in a parti- 
cular Bag near the Anus ox. inferior Gut; others again 
in ftill different Parts. It is found in both Sexes, 
but ofteneft in the Male, and of all Ages 5 but is very 
rare and fcarce, for in a thoufand Fifh it often hap- 
pens not to meet with a Stone. 
From hence it would appear, that thefe Stones are 
preternatural to the Fifh j perhaps morbid Produc- 
tions, juft as the Stone in the human Bladder, not- 
withftanding its curious and regular Form 5 probably 
N n n 2 the 
(a) Vide Crull ’ s Hlftory of Ruffia. ( b ) StralenberghY 
Hlftory of Siberia. (c) Crull’s Hlftory ^yRuflia. (d) Stra- 
smbergh ibid, (e) Crul \’s Hift. 0/Ruffia. (/) Dr, Cook’; hit Ur, 
