[Footnote 46: Chardin (Voyages en Perse, tom. i. p. 48) was
assured at Caffa, that these fishes were sometimes
twenty-four or twenty-six feet long, weighed eight or nine
hundred pounds, and yielded three or four quintals of
caviare. The corn of the Bosphorus had supplied the
Athenians in the time of Demosthenes.]