The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register., 1825-07-28
I all your HuIIIUIc SelFfHt,
JOHN LESLEY.

and twa men and some mare; Crowncr
Of Cumberland, Northumberland, Muir
rayland, and Fife; Baillie of Kirk Aldie;
Governor of Burntisand* and the Bass
Laird Of I.iberline, Tilley, and VALLEY;
Siler tacker of Stcrlii,s; Constable of
I.eith and Sir John Lesley, Knight, to
the boot of a. that.
*1wo rocks off the coast of Scotland
See Pennant's Tour.
Extracts from journal Of a South Sea Noy-
age, dated February, 1877, at thc Falkland
Islands.
THE MODE OF KILLING SEAL.
"Our manner Of taking Seals is to get be-
tween them and the water they being fright
ened hutldle together, when we kill them by
blow with club about four feet long, be-
ing the butt end of common hoop pole. A
moderate single blow is sufficient for the fur
seal. The skin is then taken off, with the
blubber or fat attached to it, after which it
is laid on slab; a tanners beaming knife is
used which takes all Off. leaving the skin
clean. This is much more expeditions than
to take eff the skin in the usual manner of
killing calf or a sheep, which is done with
the hair seal. The greatest number that
we took and dressed in one day, was 1900,
with 25 or 2S men. The skins ere then
stretched out on the ground with tent pegs,
and exposed to the sun until they are suill-
GENTLY dried. The labor is frequently very
great, as sometimes they are to be carried
a long distance on our backs, to find good
pegging ground. They require attentions of
various kinds, which makes livery laborious
The fur seals are found on rocky shores, and
the hair seal on the sandy beach, III what
we call rookeries, of from three or four hun
dred to Thousand together. They lie on
the shore great part of the time, going off
occasionally for fish, which is their only sup
port. The males of the fur seal we call old
wings, and the males of the hair SEAL sea ions
the females of both are called clampmatches.
The sea lions are difficult to kill: ! have
frequently exhausted my strength with a
club, beating them till their eyes started out
of their heads, without even knocking them
down. We generally have to use spears to
them. They arc much larger than the fur
seal, as they would weigh from six to eight
hundred weight. The sea elephants are
still larger; and spears are always necessa-
ry to despatch them. Their skins are too
spongy to be useful; they arc only taken for
their oil.
The pleasure of lore qVaYrels.-Thc fol-
| lowing aphorism, taken from a work recent
ily published, called "To-day in Irelai d.
though it may not come very appropriately
under the head of literary and scientific in
teligence, will, we think, revive conscious
ness Of its truth in the minds OF many liter
airy and scientific people "There is pleas
ure in quarrelling, which none but piqucd
lover knows, and which it would be Idle to
attempt to explain. Fancy has generally
ere then exhausted the store of hope, and
hath run over the fair side of the question,
till not ono new source IS left to imagine =
it then, pcrforce, turns the canvass and hav
ing spent all its gay colours on one side, it
delights to employ its untouched stock of
lugubrious ones upon the reverse. lfa lovers
hope be supreme bliss, lovers despair is
not without its soothing and flattering accom-
paniments, so that, on the wholc, perhaps
he is not vastly to be piticd!''
Riag .flfred's dying 4eords TO his Son.
My dear son, sit thee down beside me, and
| will deliver thee true instruction. | feel
that my hour is coming: my countcnance is
wan. My days are almost done. shall SO
to another world, and thou shalt be left alone
in all my wealth. pray thee, strive to be
Father and Lord to thy people. Be
thou father to the children, and friend to
the widow. Comfort thou the poor. Shell
ter the weak, and with all thy might, right
that which is wrong. Govern thvsclf by law:
then shall the Lord love thee, and God above
all Shall be thy reward. Call upon him to
advise tree in all thy need, and he Shall
help thee in all thou undertakest.
Deafaess-Professo Blumenbach states
a fact, which must be interesting to all who
have the misfortune to be affiittc with de-
fective heariIW.-".A About fifty years ago, a
merchant at Cleves, named Jorrison, who
had become almost totally deaf sitting one
day near a harpsichore, while one was play
ing, and having a tobacco pipe in his mouth,
the bowl Of which rested accidentally against
the instrument, he was agreeably and unex-
pettedly surprised to hear the tones i'll the
most distinct manner BY little reelection
and practice he again obtained the use of
this valuable sense, which, as Bonner says,
connects us with the moral world; for he
soon learned by means of piece of hard
wood, one end of which he placed against
his teeth, while another person places the
ether end in like manner, to keep up a
conversation, and to be able to understand
the least Whisper
The Cocooy, Queen Beetle, or Queen
Bug, from Hara,'a, atN a!irr. a the Afnsf-