PLATE LXV. 
Acipenser corpore tuberculis spinosis cxaspcrato. Art. gen. 6S- 
synn. 91. Fn. Suec. 27. 
Acipenser cirris 4, corpore tuberculorura spinosorum seriebus quin- 
queangulo, rostro subacuto. Gron.mus. 1 . p. 60. 
n. 131. Zooph. p. 39. n. 140. 
Sturio sive Silurus. Salv. aq. 11. 
Acipenser scutorum ordinibus quinque ad corpus asperum. Bloch 
Fisch. Deutschl. 3. p. 89. n. 1. t. 88. 
Sturgeon. Brit. Zool. 3. p. 127. PL xix. 
The largest Sturgeon perhaps ever caught itt the rivers of this 
country, is that mentioned by Mr. Pennant to have been found in the 
river Esk some years ago, which weighed four hundred and sixty 
pounds. Those of a smaller size, namely, from forty to fifty, or sixty 
pounds, are not by any means common, but when they attain to 
above an hundred pounds in weight they are certainly scarce. About 
twelve months ago a Sturgeon, weighing one hundred and thirty-one 
pounds, was caught in the river Maldon, near the Bucleigh Mills? 
and this stands recorded as a very remarkable incident. 
A Sturgeon of five hundred and fifty pounds weight, caught in one 
of the Italian rivers in the year 1750, was esteemed so great a rarity? 
according to Bloch, that the Duke de Carpinetto, who received it? 
made a present of it to the Pope. In the northern parts of Europe? 
Sturgeons even of this enormous size do not appear to be remarkably 
uncommon. In some of the Norwegian rivers, and in Siberia, 
are told the Sturgeon grows to such a vast size, that the roe alone 
