Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1818-06-30


fertile land under high cultivation. The
shores are bold, rocky, and bound.
ai'ef storm with easterly wind the foam
ihg ana daShing OF the waves ofihe agita-
lea ocean against the high and rocky pre-
cip!ces exhibit u most sublime spectacle.
Nahant has long been place of resort
IN .he warm season for the fashionable
and gay from The metropolis. who are in
pursuit of amusement and recreation and
Tor lnvaids from the vicinity and interior
OF lie country Who are inpursuii of health.
IN Tie most oppressive heat and sul,ry
weather OF summer, The sea brcezes there
are cool aud refreshing. Sportsmen find
employment IN fowiing anu fishing. Ma.
ny species OF small fish are caught from
lie rock on the shore Holsters, and
sometimes the large sea bass are taken.
mere are several natural cu,iosiies on
the penlasuls; under Il hill on the south
side OF Great NaEant is curious groitO
or cavern, called the Swallows House
The entrance, which, is from beach at The
west emo, is about ten feet wide and Ave
IN height and about seventy in length
aIter Few steps, the cavern increases in
breadth 10 fourteen feel and in heieht 10
eighteen or twenty feel. and then gradu-
any becomes lower and narrower toward
me east extremity, where is an outlet diff
hcuii 10 be passed, especially hy ladies.
Al the east end, al low tide. in lie ne,ols
among the large rocks, are found the An
mai fI0Cer or Rose Fish, adhcring 10
small stones in water 4 or feet deep
hey can he taken up with case | saw
flVe al one time Ill one OF these pools
they have been found in other places
round Nahant, where The water is not
much agltated. Myriads ofSMsllows in
habit this cave, aud hatch their Young
there and II Is notion generally receiy-
ed, that this is their asyium in winter
where they repese III torpor.
Another curiosity is cllasm in the rocky
bank on the north shore, about "A quarter
OF mile from the old dwelling houses: il
is called the Sporting Horn. The clasm
Is about thirty feet in depth at about
half llde, the ocean rushes in With a tre-
mendous sound, and with such violence
that when 1t Is dashed against the perpen-
dicular rocks al the extremity, The waves
are sp0ufed and raised to the surface of
me EARN, anu sometimes several feet
above it.
Immense quantities of sea weed are
cast by the ocean on the beaches and
shores of the peninsula and isthmus nor
less than 5000 tons in wear are convey
ed TO the main land by the farmers, whose
fields are enriched and fertljzed by This
valuable Sea Manure. II is been much
used during the Hast 40 or so wears. The
crops OF English hay, ii is acknowledged,
have increased in that period in tentold
proportion. (Caz.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF TIE UNITED
STATES
WHEREAS, by an act ofCongress, pas
sed on the 18th December, 1911, entitled
An act extending the time for opening
ibe several Land Offices established in
the territory OF Orleans, THE President of
TIE United States is authorised 10 cause
Tie land Offices in the said territory
(now state of Lousiana) TO be opened. and
the land offered for sale:
Therefore, /, JAMES MONROE. Presi-
dent of the United States, do hereby de-
clare and make known, that public sales
shall be held at OpelouSas, in the state
OF Louisiana, for the disposal Of the fol-
loving lands, agreeably 10 law, in the
western land district of Louisiana, viz.
On the first Monday in December next.
for the sale OF Townships No.
and Sss,$} sss ss:; line sSs f;s
West Of the principal meridian
On The first Monday in February next
for The sale of Townships
3South0 C23AE
= { s sS"!S of the base line ip3 s4ss
0fS u s so~,E Ranges as
West of the principal meridian.
Excepting the land reserved by law for
the support Of schools, and for Other pur-
poses. Each sale shall continue ouen for
three weeks and no longer, and ihe sales
shall be IN regular numerical order.
Given under my hand, al the CITY Of
washington, the goth dav Of June,
one thousand eight hundred and
eighteen.
JAMES MONROE.
By the President
JOSIAH MEIGS,
Commissioner OF the General Land Office.
A Map of the above Land District is
preparing, and will be for sale at Opelou-
sas, and at The General Land Office. bv
JOHN GARDINER, CI OK.
SACKETT's HARBoR, June 2.-On
Thursday, the 26th Of May, ult. The re-
mains OF Brigadler General ZEBULON
NJ. PIKE, and his Aid de Camp Captain
NICHOLSON, who were (afierth defeat
OF the enemy,) killed by the explosion Of
ONE OF their magazines, at York, i'm U6
per Canada, OIL the 27tll DAY Of April
l9l3,-and also, those of Captain AM,
BROSE SPENCER, Jun. 0ormerlv Aid
| de Camp TO Major General Brown,) WHO
died OF a wound received in tie battle
al Tie falls OF Niagara, on the 25tb july
lSl4,-were removed from Fort ToDv-
kins, and buried with military honors. or,
the u. States ground, near the Madison