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the broad base
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j^Rais'd by a people's love,
\ln whose fatherly embrace
els elofely lodg'd a nation's trust:
Point of that pyramid whose height
Renders conspicuous ev'ry aft of thine
Rather be deep mantledin eternal night
Thantan thy aged feet upon thefteep decline
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tbe waj.
MifceHany.
''From the (London) Courier, of 'Feb.
25.
The YORKSHIRE PHENOMENON.
The following letter relative to this Phenom
enon,
has been written by Mr. Topham to a
friend.
THE very lingular phenomenon
which took place near my.
house in Yorkshire, on Sunday the
v : 2oth of December, 1795, bib excit
ed general curiosity./
Being in London at the time, it
was impossible for me to know more
of it, than feme vague accounts in
provincial and London papers, pod
MO be certain, from private letters,
that fueb an event had ocerred. On
my return here I found that for a
. (pace of nearly three weeks go or 40
perlons each day had come to feet
stone which had fallen; and 1 found
likewise a number of letters from dif
feent parts of the kingdom, requeft
ring me to give them an account Os
the circumstance.
The following detail, which you
are welcome to make public, will be,
I hope, Utisfa^vry on the fubjeft.
The exadt weight of the stone
which fell, and which was weighed
immediately on being dug up, was
by Merlin's balance, three flone igib.
It had buried itself in twelve inches
of foil, and after that in fix inches of
solid chalk rock, from whence it was
some little time in being extraded.
When taken up it was warm, and
fmosked.
At the time it fell there was a it
* barer within nine yards, and a car
penter and groom of mine within
Seventy yards. The laborer law it
coming down, at the distance of a
bout ten yards from the ground.
As it fell a number of explosions
were heard by rhe three men, at (hort
intervals, ritout as loud as the report
of a pistol. The stone is ftrongly'
impregnated with fulphur, and then
smelt very strongly. The general
texture of the stone is that of grey,
granite, of which 1 know of none that
may be called " natives of this coun
try.”
What renders this event more ex
traordinary js, thagithe day was a
mild, hazy day ; a fort of Weather
very frequent on the Wold bill,,when
there are no winds or (forms, but
*here was not any thunder or light
niogthe whole day. s ^/
It fell about three 0 clockJn the
afternoon. $ course, as far as I can
colleft from .different accounts, was
from the foutyweft. ^ } a
At Bridgetown, and at different vil
lages, foundswere heard in the %
which the inhabitants rook to be the
noifeof guns at sea: But at two ad
joining village,, the noise was so dif
tina of famething lingular puffing
through the air, towards my habita
tion, that five, or fix people came up
to fee if any thing extraordinary had
happened to my house or grounds.
, in burying itfelf in the earth, it
threw up a greater quantity of fpil by
far than a (hell would have flung up,
and to much greater ex,e. When
the laborer had recovered the
li^ii^^^
extreme alarm into which the de
scent of such a stone had thrown him,
his firft description , was, 66 that the
clouds opened as it fell, and he
thought heaven and earth were com
tog together !"
From the various persons who have
been to infpeft this curiosity, and
who are still daily coming from dif
ferent parts, no fatiitaaory conjee
tore has yet peen hazarded from
whence it came. Wehave no such
stone in this country. There has not
been any wherein these parts any e
ruption from the earth. From its
fagged and fiogular form, it cannot
have come from any building ; and ,
as the day was not tempestuous, it
does not seem probable that it can
have been forced from any rockrthe
nearest of which are those of Flam
borough head, a distance of twelve
miles.
The particulars of this event are
now before the public. I have tak
en every due care to examine the ac
counts given by the different per
lons, who all agree upon the fubjed ;
and from what I have seen I have no
doubt of the veracity of their rela
tion. To account for io extraordi
nary an appearance,! -leave to the
researches of the philosopher. I've
the honor to be, Sir, &c.
EDWARD TOPHAM.
Wold Cottage, Feb. 8, 1796.:
Obfervationi on the CULTURES
CORN.
[Communicated to the Burlington
Agricultural Society by John Shep
pard, of Greenwich, in NewjerfeyJ
HAVING heard it foggefted, that
Indian Corn might be improv
ed, by a careful attention to plant on
ly the feed gathered from the (talks
which produced two ears ; in the fall
of 1780, I collected a quantity of
foch ears, fufficient formy next crop.
—ln the spring of 1787,1 planted
this feed $ and was well pleated to
find my crop increase much beyond
the quantity I had been accustomed
to, even to ten bushels per acre:
And by following the fame role in
saving my feed, my crops have in
created to sixty bufhefs per acre, and
I have three or four ears upon a stalk.
Publilhed by order of the Society,
[William Coxe, Jun. fec'ry.
Burlington, April 20, 1790.
formed method tf^
BERS.
Take an empty barrel, the tighter
the better- take out one head—fill
barrel three quarters full of small
rocks—level the rocks with smooth
ones= whereon place fix inches of
good horse dung-then fill the bar.
rel within two inches of the top,;
with the best earth that can be pro
cured, whereon plant your cucumber
feeds— be careful to place around the
barrel^ fufficient quantity of bruth,
as supporters for the wipes. Wtyk'
duce force small tube within the bar
rel to convey water, as occasion may ;
require among the rocks. The wa
ter should always be even with the
fufface of the rocks. In order to de
femtoe this introduce a (mail fpileto
to the fide of the barrel at the height
the water should stand.
A country clergyman meeting a neigh
bor, who never came to church, although
an old fellow of abeut fixty/he gave him
some reproof on that account, and afted it
be never read at home? No replied the
clown, 1 can't read. 1 dare fay, said the
parson, you don't know who made you ?
Not I, in ttpth, cry'd the countryman. A
little boy earning by at the fame time, “ who
made you, child? said the parson. '' God
fir," answered the boy. "Why look you
there," quoth the honest clergyman, " are
not you a&medjo hear a little child of
five or fayears old teß me who made him,
when vou that are aid a man ratinnt^"
tm," said the cetera' "it I
?er that he foould Hwemheb ; be was made but
t'other day ,itis a great while, mefler face I
was made."
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VERMONT
L ^ N 2 °££I£E
DAFID RUSSELL, ^
f\F Bennington in Vermont, who for thir-,
teen years past, has kept the land office
(having the only documents $r the purpose)
n said state, having formed aconnexion wish
iDavid Porter, & Co. has opened a land office
No. 15 Baling Slip, Newyork, in conjunc
tion with laid office in Bennington.
The public are therefore refpeafully in
formed, that any business relating to lands
in Vermont, will be tranfaded at either of
the said offices, with great advantage to those
who apply ; expeditious and perpetual com
munications are kept up between said offices:
persons desirous of inquiring into the state
of their titles; whether their rights or tra&s
have been fold and loft for taxes, or whether
they are yet redeemable, or the chain of ti
tle is regular from the original proprietor ;
or who are desirous of purchasing or idling
rights or trails in any part of Vermont ; or
of having their lands taken care of, and their
present or future taxes paid : on application
to either of the above offices, their business
will be immediately attended to, arid their
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ed for , reasonable compensation. Those
who purcbafe lands through the medium of
these offices, will always be sure of a good
title, consequently those who fell, obtain a
higher price. R@, Porter, ^ Co.
Land Office, Bennington, Jan. 13, 1796.
EXCELLENT FRESH HIDES?
JUST arrived, and for SALE, by the sub
scriber, for one half ready pay, and one
half on a year's credit, with approved secu
rity, Four Thousand very large and excellent
NEW HIDES.
Which, for size and quality, are full equal to
any slaughter hides.
K, Hides delivered at Concord or Haver
hill, as heft faits the purchaser.
NATHANIEL LADD.
Concorde April 26, 1796. : 3
att— tec ——c—ttcemtnep tetßettcro
HEMLOCK BARK wanted.
WANTED TO PURCHASE,
A LARGEquantity of Hemlock
BARK, for which the Cash, and a very
generous price will be given, on deliver, —
Or half the Calh will be advanced to those
who will deliver any confiderabl equantity,
in the course of the present season, by,
?^NATHANIEL LADD.
) Concord, May 9th, 1796, §
BOOKBINDINGS
is performed at the Mirror Office.
Persons fending books by the posts, shall
have them bound and returned as soon as
possible. ;
. —— — __________ —___.
A Runaway Boy.
QANaway from (he fobferib
er, a boy, named John Swett, about
/, seventeen years of age ; light complex
ion—blue eyes, and light coloured hair— a
boat five feet fix inches high, can play on a
fife—had on when he went away a new Lon
don brown homespun coat, a green waist.
coat, and striped tow and linen trowfers.
Whoever (hall take upand fe
corekid runaway, and give information so
that the fabfcriber may recover him, shall
have FIVE DOLLARS REWARD, and all
necessary charges paid by me the fubferiber.
All persons ^te forbid employing, harboring
ortrofting him. , ,JOHN SWETT.
I Gilmantown, May 22, 1796. $
'r"'^'' % ' : • ' '' ' : ' ' 4 ' '•
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VALUABLE LAND for fate
TO BE SOLD,
ABOUT TWENTYFIVE ACRES OF
Intervale Land,
ON the easterly fide of Mer
rimac river, a little below CONCORD
BRIDGE. also,
About seven acres of Upland,
near said intervale —with a
HOUSE and BARN standing
thereon—belonging to the estate of RICH
ARD EASTMAN, late of Concord deceaf
td.
The five acre lot will be fold
separately, or the whole together, as shall
best fait the purchasers. For terms apply
to TIMOTHY WALKER.
Concord, June 6, 1796.,
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Rags ! Rags!
The highest price in Calh, paid
for clean Cottton, Linen, or Cot
ton and Linen RAGS, by the
Editors of the Mirror. La
dies 1 tis much more praisewor
thy to save old rags than throw
them may.
100 Dollars
reward.
STOLEN, last evening, fiom the
liable of the fubferiber in Bellair,
near Jchnftown, ft„e of Newyork, a
BEAUTIFUL BAY HORSE, 1
about fifteen and an half bands high,
with a long slim neck, and thin bone,
head, a middling short dock, and bag
been nick'd, a' lof ty carriage, hit near
hind foot white, a few white hair# 00
hi, forehead— Was taken with him a
foaffile bitted bridle, plated bitt, and
a plated frontpiece, with the words
Magtaig Needle, engraved upon it, a
faddie some wern, with plated ftirrupa
—the horse was one of the leaders be
longing to his set of coach horfer—t
The thief calls himletf JAMES
CUMMIN S, and has worked
some days past at the above place $
he was dressed in an old crow colored
coat, with a (potted velvet vest, and
a striped elastic great coat—he is a
bout five feet 10 inches high, Gim
made, his hair is curly, turns up be
fore, and is cued with an eelfkin —
grey eyes, the white of them inflam
ed, and has a villainous thtevilh look
The above reward will be given on
the delivery of the horse and thief to
me, at my house, or 50 dollars for
the horse alone.
A. MOREHOUSE,
0 The printers throughoutfhe U.
States, are requeued to publilh the
above, and likewise the printers ig Y
Canada, and fend their accounts per
post, and the amount shall be imme
diately remitted them.
Bellair, March ^.1796. 7
RUNAWAY BLMX^^
' .=---—-——, &%tc';
DAN away from the fubferib
er, on the 21st of April hft, a black boy
named CESAR WHITTEKER ; by trade
a blacksmith— — All persons are forbid har:
boring, trading or employing him, on the ?/
penalty of the law— — Whoever will return
said Runaway, shall have ONE CENT re
ward, and no charges paid, by'
PHINEHAS EASTMAN.,
;Bofcawto, May 13, 1796. ;; 6 '
VqrafoO_toS^temcfouL&Bgo^oratjt#,tranCtßqretu±rtitcjro‘
One Cent Reward.
RAN away from me the fub
feriber, an indented negro boy, named,
Robert Mingo, 19 years of age.
^Whoever will return fei^bay,
to me, shall have the above regard, ind no
charges paid. All persons are forbid harbor- ,
ing or truftiog him, on penalty of thehw.
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