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THE HUSO Or GERMANY. 
fhe Hufo of Germany t 
This fpecies is fuppofed to be peculiar to the rivers of 
Germany ; particularly the Danube and thofe ftreams 
that flow into it. From the Black Sea it afcends fhat ri' 
ver, and is caught in nets placed in different places to in' 
tercept it, nearly as far up as Vienna, where they are ex- 
pofed to fale every Friday, to the number cf fixty or an 
hundred. The flefh is foft, glutinous, and flabby ; but 
it bears falting, and is exported from Wallachia, where 
it is principally taken, to the different markets of 
rope *• A 
This fi(h, like the reft of the genus, is gregarious ail 
migratory ; and it is upon its excurfions from the fea to 
the frelh water, that it is taken, during the months 0i 
Oaober and November. The hufos are from fifty t0 
four hundred pounds weight, and are faid to poffefs fu°^ 
jflrength, that they frequently drive the fiflierman over- 
board with a ftroke of the tail f. 
It is chiefly for the ifinglafs which it affords, that th lfi 
filh is taken : The manner of preparing this fubftance, ^ 
by cutting the ikin, the entrails and the fins, into f fl,a 
pieces, and leaving them to macerate in a proper qua nt1 ^ 
ty of warm water; they are afterwards all boiled t0 S e ^ 
ther upon a flow fire, until they are diffolved and re ^ U ^f f 
to a jelly ; this jelly is fpread upon inftruments made 
the purpofe, and upon drying it affumes the f° rr ° 
parchment* 
* Gefncr de Aquatil. p. J9- 
•f Idem ibidem. 
