Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1817-09-12
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NO country promises q better harvest
than the District Of Maine.
BOSTON, September >.
Cnc0m2son FiSh.-A Fish, of a species
rarely, if ever, before seen in this place
WAS caught on Saturday last of the i.onp
wharf, apparently asleep Oh the TOP Of
The water. Il is about five feet long,
three from the back to the abdomen.
exclusive OF substances of some length
resembling hHs. Is about eight inches
talck-has no taperng tail, but term
mates iii full width at each end. SIM
posed to weigh 100 lbs.
We are assured by respectable zen
tleman ofPiymouth, that about two wears
since many persons belonging to thai
town saw, repeatedly, near the Beach
an Aquatic SCRIP nj similar to that which,
has recently visited Gloucester harbor:
and that the dispositions of persons of
veracity 10 the fact can be obtained
We hope some individual, 10 whom if
may be convenient, will have The good
ness 10 collect the information on tI,is
point. Palladium
Sept. 3.
=, The Salem Gazette of yesterday mentions
that The Leviathan was again seen on FRIDAY
near Eastern Point
We are assured that on Friday last. about
O'Clock, p. NJ the master of a Beverly boat
on his return from this town, saw an object
floating the water, in the vicipity or Hatf
Way Rock (which he at firsttook to be a iar~e
spar, but approachinsIt, he found it animated.
aud las no doubt ii was the Sea Serpent seen
off Cape Ann.
Halfway between Boston and Cane Ann
Z, In Margins Geography, the existence of the
sea snake, OF Serpent OF the ocean, in the Nor.
wegian seas, is asserted and proved in the eyj-
dence of many naygatnrs. Its description
corresponds with that of the Gloucester visit
or [Ceatiaei.
Sept 8.
IT is reported that the Aquatic Serpent was
seen on Monday last reposing at ease on The
surface of the water, near Halt-waw-rock.
We understand the fish taken off the Long
wharf, few days since, is called SIM Fish,
that one was caught in the harbour 10 or IS
years ago; ard that the skin of one which
weighed 800 is preserved in Peaie's Muse
UNI, Philadelphia. Several of the fish of this
species, have been caught at Halifax, n. S.
remarkably elastic
The fish first above mentioned has been
presented 10 the Liunean Society.
[PaHadinn.
An address is preiixed TO tbe new
Tales, Harrington and Osmond, by Miss
Edgeworth, from her father, in which he
congratulates himself on Witnessing, on
his 74th year, the publication of a new
work by his daughter. After briefly no
licIng the contents of the volumes, he
thus concludes And now indulrent
reader, beg you 10 pardon This intrusi-
on, and with the most grateful acknowl-
edgemenis, ! bid you farewell forever"
MS address was written Nav 81 and
on tile l3th of June, the good old peutle-
man uieu' Boa. d. 1dU.
LYNCHBURG, Sept. J.
ne obncco received during fine last
year at tlie Lynchburg Inspections. ex-
ceeded Ien Thousand Hoesheads-the va
lue fully 10000 dollars and on TLurs-
day last ,there remained i'm the severa,
warehouses not more than about ADJ
hhds. unsbipped. Neare informed that
not less than thousand or fifteen hun
dred bushels of Wheat are received dailv
at bI'tchcH's, and at A'ahoay's Mills and
Lumber Houses here, and considerable
quantities by others.
Goods are certainly arriving. moi o,l,,
for this place, but for the west as mott,
ced III our last. An arrival Of Frids,.
morning last bro't on Goods purchased ~
New ork, where the merchant who MIR
chased shipped with the Goods for R;rb-
mond, and thence up James River to fbis
place, and before his departure. will ,ye
dispatch them by waggons
to their destination, Burksville, in Ken
lucky. This IS the way to do bnsi,,es,--
Ihls circumstance yieldsus qualification.
Ihis gentleman, man ofintelligence, for |