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your favouring the public with the refult of your 
ftudies on that lubjeft. 
The four kinds of Hudfon’s Bay fifh are the 
Sturgeon, the Burbot , the Gwiniad, and a new fifh 
called the Sucker at Hudfon’s Bay. 
The Sturgeon was about fourteen inches long, 
and therefore feems to be a young fifh ; as it is like- 
wife obferved in the lift, written by the Gentleman 
who fent this fifh from York Fort. 
Description. 
Its nofe is very long and flender, terminating in a 
point ; the eyes are fmall ; under the proje&ing 
fnout, before the mouth, are four beards or cirri, 
placed nearly in the fame line, and not by pairs, as 
in fome other fpecies of Sturgeon. The mouth is 
beneath, nearly oppofite the eyes, toothlefi, carti- 
lagineous, femilunar when in its natural politico, but 
round when open ; on each fide are two noftrils. 
The whole head is depreffed, and very nearly quad- 
rangular j the whole body pentagonal, and tapering 
towards the tail ; the whole fkin tough, covered 
with five rows of uncinated fcales; the dorfal feries 
confifts cf fourteen large roundifh fcales, and a fingle 
one behind the dorfal fin 3 each of the lateral rows 
has 35 oblique fcales ; in the two ventral rows are 
nine roundifh ftrong fcales between the peftoral and 
ventral fins ; one fcale is behind the vent, and ftiil 
another behind the anal fin. 
The fifh, according to this defcription, feems to 
come the neareft to that fpecies of Sturgeon which 
I de- 
