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Of Fifhes. 
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(b) Excrc, 
182. S. 2. 
cal de Re is Rbomboidal. It is affirmed by Moufet , (a) That the Scales 
Cibaria. of a Sturgeon turn towards the Head 5 borrowing his 
Error herein of Pliny. 
Lately, a piece of a Sturgeons Gut was fhewed me by 
Dr. Edward Tyfon , which he had cut off of a great One 
fent to my Lord Major. It is very thick, ftrong and Muf 
cular. And the inner Coat made of Fibers , fo loofely 
woven together, as to look like a Net 5 and that above 
the eighth of an inch 111 thicknefs. In which a plenteous 
Chyle is conveniently lodged, and thence gradually tranf 
mitted to the Lacteal Vans. 
Scaliger faith (b) of the Guts of a Sturgeon, that 
being taken out and cut all to pieces, thole pieces 
will Hill move. Which may partly depend upon their 
great thicknefs and mufcularity 5 the like being obfervable 
in cutting the Heart and other Mufcular parts of divers 
Animals. 
The Sturgeon is- taken in moft great Rivers, as well as 
in the Sea. He hath fometimes been feen, faith BeUonius, 
fix yards long. The bigger he is, as all other Fifh, the 
(0 Salvian. better meat. The Italians (/) prefer the Belly before the 
Jole. His Liver very delicate. At Hamburge and Dantficf 
they eat (or did 111 Moufet’ s time, who reports it, eat) 
Sturgeon roafted. In the fame Author, fee a moft excel¬ 
lent Pickle for this Fifh. The Eggs being faked and made 
up into a Mafs, were firft brought from Conflantinople 
by the Italians , and called Caveare. Of the way of making 
it, fee Gefner. The pickled pieces made of the Chine , are by 
fome called Schinalia. Of the long Bag (d) which grows 
next the Chine , the people that live near Tanarn make 
Clew. 
The HEAD of a great STURGEON. 
MOON-FISH. Mola Salviani Dzw^Becaufe the Tail-Fin 
is fhaped like a Half Moon , By which, and his odd trailed 
fhape, looking as if he were only the Head of fome great 
Fifh cut off from his Trunk, he is fufficiently diftinguifhed 
from all others. Well defcribed by Ilondeletim and Sal- 
vian 5 and by this latter, very curioufly pictur’d. The 
Gill-Fins, as he obferves, are fo poftur d, as not to move 
from Head to Tail , or vice verfa , but from Back to 
Belly, 
(d) Salviao. 
