Crossword-Solution: BELUGA 6 letters, 54 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Are these cetacea peculiar to the great rivers of South America, like the manatee, which, according to Cuvier, is also a fresh water cetaceous animal? or must we admit that they go up from the sea against the current, as the beluga sometimes does in the rivers of Asia? What would lead me to doubt this last supposition is, that we saw toninas above the great cataracts of the Orinoco, in the Rio Atabapo.

Not far from Malbaie, he saw the so-called "porpoises," or white whales, (beluga, French, _marsouin_) that still disport themselves in great numbers in these waters, come puffing to the surface and writhe their whole length into view like miniature sea-serpents.

Lawrence is in reality the French _marsouin_, the English beluga, a word of Russian origin, signifying white.

The Beluga (_Delphinapterus leucas_), is a real whale with its most striking characteristic the white, or rather cream-coloured, skin described by some writers as very beautiful.

The beluga is peculiar to northern regions where the water is cold: when one is seen at the mouth of an English river it is a subject of special note.