The Sun.
London, England, 1803-09-02 00:00:00

P !SIC." PO ROOS INS:WT.

TFt E fifth volume of the (I.:ranaClitirrs of the Ame...
PhilusuPhical Society Contains a very curioust,
description or a Fish, c-,,lrkh is cdri•,l n ly accom.:
panied by an Insed. Timpli'ish is called Clupea
velum's ; the Ink& Or/44w Ilmrs, a sr.:tor.
The Author of the Atrtisitri Mr. B. H. LaTrobc,
a Member of the Soeir6Vesid:•d, in March 5797,
on the. Books of YOrk.Rivgr, -in. lie as.,
setts that he has witnessed the 'following faa, up.i
wards of a htMclred times : .
Ainongst,the Fish which, in that season, ascent
York tier; -the_ Old W;1e,,,9r,,th-y; Old Wife,
(Clupea noudescripta) arrives in very considerable
quantities ; and, in some ,years, their npmber is
prodigiouS.—This Fish is equal' in size to the largest!
herrings, and it is distinguished by a- spot of a
reddish colotir, which is , above its first' fin. It
caught from the time-of it's. arrival- till 'kVlay, andi
it's taste icequal to that of the fresh her3ing. .1
In this seasun each of these fishhas in its mouth!
an inset about two incheS long, attached to its pa.
late by four-feet, and,,ot course, ,inan inverted po.
sition. It cannot be kinoved' from 'its situation
without trouble, and perhapS injury to the jaws of,
the fish. Indeed, the fight:men consider it as es-t
sential to'the .exl3tence nithe rid), for when it hasi
been taken away, the latter could no lortgermlim,i
but speedily, perished.: I 'several cimPs etideaAresi,
without success, to preserve both the inseil tirftfitie
fi,h; but I was always obliged eithertodestroytiiit,
or wound the other. I sninetimes succeeded in se-
parating the inset without doing it injury, but the
moment I set it at liberty, it eagerly re-entered the
mouth of the fish, where it resumed its poiition, It
was always very corpulent, of a' disgusting appear..
ance, and dkagreeable to ;liold between the fingers;,.
and whether.it, acquires ,its post, brstrength, or, by
favour, it is certain that it speedily. becomes fat in!
itSTositiOn. • '

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The 11,11, in the mouth of which this in.siet lodges,'
comes from the ocean, into .the river of Virginia,
ab;,ut the saino time :as the Chad, and 'continues 'to
arrive from the I beginning of March till the middle.
of. Mak,,during: the-Whole of. Which: time it 'is fat
and- full.roed ; hut I never. caught one without
finding an Onirrus in its. month. The Chad :begins
to retire from the fresh water,about.tha end of AilitY3;
or beginning. of ..June., ar,witich „time being ;thin,
soft, and not•earable, it is, not taken. It„,is: asserted'
that the-Oniscqs, like all. other:Orasitet, :abandons•
its oteetor,:when thelat ter :is :incapableof feeding
it as well 4s'it could in..te time of its prosperity,
for it' has never been found in the mouths of those
fish which have been taken in the months of July"
and August.

Sunday seannight, about half past eight o'clock.in
the morning,' a fire broke out ,it the NunneryVill,
near Douglas, in the Isle of Man. It- proceeded
from a barley mill on the second floor, near the centre
of the building ; which, it is supposed, had taken,
fife the preceding evening; but was not disco4ired.:
`till the flames burst out, .11y the very greartaliitir-
tiqns of a number of active persons, the fire
under in about two 'hours ; bur the clarrig,e IS 'con- •
siderable.

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