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noMMON STURGEON. 
of Sharks in general, in being bifurcated or divided after the 
manner of bony fishes. The colour a dull olive blue, the belly 
white. 
In common with a multitude of other things, the Sturgeon 
has been an object of superstition. .Lhat C[uaint but learned 
hunter out of such recondite matters, the antiquaidan Aubrey, 
records it as commonly reported, that before an heir of the 
Clifton of Clifton, in Nottinghamshire, dies, a Sturgeon is 
caught in the River Trent near that place. 
