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trentity of this mom. ivr pilotage, tweensall
. The rest of the party,
fartleroue chreg"ilimithia peeseginaZigebtlajirot NI feet lane. rattved a
who'd room tiers specie*. era the dot. They theeee
desseeded at verieem seeks with ate IMP i34/6, throv' our.
tow peseta, from renal to room, till they reselted is regll.
lee evaccessiee the tenth apartment. !resides several lateral
ream% towhee met of these several apartateuts
The, supposed the whole depth a their (tweet was mere
than 000 rest; and mach of the
unexplored. loutotterab'e sonorities are aeropeeils.l from
the ei ilincs of for rooms, sod from the projection ~los
in the wally. The nionsli of 11w cave is ah.ut 10 chains
south of the line of the Erie meal.

PARSENCR OP MIND.

[From the Richmond Compiler, Aorteriran Paper ]

An instance of this de•criptiow sweltered Weein this
neighbeiiihood, which deserves to he recorded. At Can.
litTe's coal-pits In Chesterfield, shoal fourteen miles from this
eity, the woikinen had firm* • shaft near tern handfed feet
deep. At the bottom of It they Wee, blowing nick. An
Irishman was alone engaged in this operation ; hr had there-
IA A with powder. bird the match, and lighted it. before
he give the signal to those shove to heal him up. It is, of
comae, neeerniry no these occasions for those at the ivied.
hew to draw the person up as rapidly as possible, to avoid
the effects of the explosion. The Irishman hail been drawn
from 30 to 50 feet in the air, when the rope broke, and he
was precipitated with all his force to the bottom of the shaft.
Neatly stunned by so violent • fall, this man had still re.
senor of mind coolish to recollect the imminent danger he
ran of being blown to atoms by the powder; the match was
yet burning, and in • moment more it might hare been too
late : yet he immediately clapped his hands on the ignited
neitsh, and extinguished it. There is probably ant lAN man
nut of Iris thousand nhose wit would have been so ready in
so painful and perilous a situation.
THE SEA SERPENT.
[From the Porlinottlla N. H. Aurae?, Antis. 41
On Thursday afternoon, about four o'clock, as Mr. Simi.
Duncan, of Newcastle (an inspector employed in the Cas-
ten; Houle of ibis pail), Oil tagiClii in fialsiiig near the en-
trance of this harbour, be saw the ssa serpent lying asleep
on the water, about a wrier of a mile from Rush Island.
He at first supp.ised it to be • large bag Boating on the
water; bat on approaching within shout one hundred yards,
the serpent immedi.tlrly inuved well great rapidity toward.;
the wept, and approached nil.' In Ortioror's Point. IA his
motion through the water he stewed five hunches at a lime,
shout five fiat apart ; preveating the appearance of five per.
poises hallowing each other in a sight line. He was seen
distinctly, uhile going about a mile and a half. When he
name irear Odiurne. Nett lie item d, and made towards the
shoals. Mr. Dutse.Al was in a whale twat, accompanied by
' his son, Murat ill years ;chi, and by Mr. Jonathan Vesinard,
ho both saw the serpent.
. . . .

About ass o'clock the suite afirrnonn, Mr. Duncan wax
hailed by a man iu spottier hum, whir .litresed his attrition
towards the smith, where he scam mix she serpent about half
a mite distant, approaching the brat in n loch Mr. Duncan
was. The serpent came direetty laniards the bust, and ap.
prunehed within 40 feet of the mem; when he anddenly
changed hia cuisine, and went off towards' Yak bike.
Mr. Duncan is mintident that the animal he saw was en-
tirely different from any which be had ever seen before ; and
he repreeents buns' If to he well arquainted with the appear-
ance of the different knoll cif whales, porpoiace, and sharks,
as %tell as of licirsemacukrias. The animal he saw had no
appearance of any fins. 'the first time the serpent was %ern
he wax in bight about half an hour, anti by the rapidity of
his motions apiwared 1.. be alai Mt hut the second lime be
exitstincied inuring in dille,ent direction. near the boat, as
much as as hour.
The •buve rdation ix taken from %le. Duncan himself,
who n read), it Nips !reit, to mike nifillasit of its
New Yo. A, A stpast 7.,

N.411:11.41, PIIENOMENON.

Copy of ti letter *11(4'11,1.41 to tl'e Editor of the
Amesicun Daily Adrertiser, dund
11'4.hington Tn.) Aurnst 4, 1/1111.

t, Mr. Poulson—There has recently appeared in this place
au extraordinary um oral phenomenon, which has attracted
the att. estop of the ritriu:N alike whole weir hhourittg coops.
let. On the mapper of se smell branch of Chartier's Creek,
n few miles distant from this place, a geosileniurs has been
lioring for salt, in the manner missal in skis country, which
is by perf sratiog the rock (than which there is little else met
wills below the seams.) perpendicularly with en asezttr, of
about three Mehra diameter, sod hod bored to the distance
of aMmt 400 fel I ; thrus,gh this bole • tabor water, mixed
wiih and peopelled by gaseous air, rushes violently, and If •
pipe be inserted into the hole, oil' spout poriwsrglierrinfli
30 or 40 feet, like a fotraisist. By accident, she hole has be.
risme moistly clicked a distance below the surface of the
earth, and this g•sertus air has forted itself numerous small
vents in the emit, arljicent. from 10 to 100 feet distant from
the well ; some of thecae air from the hot' 1111 l of a curie, nod
allow themselves by • continual risimr nr Muting of air-bubbler.
By the appli-ilion of lire to any of the vents, whether on the
earth or its the seater, it wit, kern with a lively, bnliraust
flame, apparently sittoort ~tarokr. and 1 Icsve seen more
Item a dozen booming at oar time some (ruin the surface
of the ►utb, other.. awing the stories and gm, cl, and same
from the surface of the creek, where the water it too feet
deep; rod by plating a hollow lithe over th► apses f
which the commis air ■cartes, and applying a lighlta piper Its
tlw top. it will thme like to a candle or flambeau.
proprietor of alit• well suggested the practicability of con.
rentrating the eteenal flan!, and make it slut only useful,
it um% i., fur iliunpruntion nt eighi, but also to boil the
irate. for the noomfacture pram,, an expensive part of the
work in the boding of the saline water, heretofore pestormod
by slums coal.—hoses, respecttully.
.6

Wednesday morning two 'abut:nem who are em-
ployed, ttttt togs( 'other., in palling down some OM
loupes in Great iiiis"ell-strert, Bloomsbury, wrre
at work en the ground-floor of one or the
liou"es, wlwia soddenly u huge beam at the top gave
way, which, together with an immense yttantity of
brig ks and mortar, fell with an alarming crash, and
the two MeV, aaaud DuTroN email 1)A wits, wrre
hair rd underneath. The reavaiaster of the arc:-
tarn, with great ulscrity, began to remove the rub-
bish ; and esettturilly the poor fillows wire
eztri-
cured loom their perilous 1'41118600, in astute of
ethilts+tioo. They were, without drlay, COO.
Veved un sitOttrln to the Milltlharz hospital, wltete
vary weir ea:unmet' lay the aurgeour, who declared
Cc- v hid not receiver' the slightest injury ; npon
vciach the tom, after thatokitig the surgeon*, went to
store:, previously taking a &Jos of whiskey. •
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the summit of s prefipleoue, yeti* milled " The
Nom," en the eolith leeb ur the phemk , there bee
lately bore dieteeered, seell partially employed s remarkable
ralrf. of •rloirli • sonnies's!: *tryout was published le the
.1•Inulown itspeldiess of the 11th ell. Dr. Porto. and
game or sisters other patinae% whited this ewe M the 411
of holy. They &wended by s rope &bust 16 fret In • room
11 feet by 20, .shoal 13 feet high sml arched. Ai the ea-