Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-03-30
From the Mass. Journal.

! FISH, can never look upon the cold re-
mains Of this wriggling, slippery tribe with
the mere feelings Of an epicure. / do not
love to imagine how their quivering gills and
phosphoric scales will fly from the grating
knife, shrink in sea of fat, or swim in an
ocean Of chowdcr. Fancy suggests. "there is
more In fish than meets the eye" The fact is,
have always believed in meiempsychosis-
that is have an imaginary belief, which hav-
ing no foundation, is neither to be Inquired
into, nor proved. With these views, IL is no
wonder seriously synpathized in The distress
of the poor Irish woman, who feared she might
be rr.ssisnoshes as--ss6- S~-seS ~-S -s''''s-
Fishrs are 10 me fruitful source OF thought
and theory; and in their different species love
10 trace a resemblance 10 he infinite varieties
Of the human soul. If DR.. Johnson is still
doomed 10 move about Incorporated am moral
" certain he is in whale. few years since,
a female whale was hsrpooned On the coast OF
Greenland, and her enraged mate followed
the offending vessel three day, successfully,
and would not quit il, till he had ashed II into
atoms. Who knows but this enormous cou-
ple were Johnson and his wife Tetty? and this
but new form ofthe "tumuItuous tenderness,
described by Bossy. AS Tor Boswell and Ihrale,
they are busting little Pilot.hsh, TOO convent
emily insign ,6cant for The monster to destroy.
The immortal part Of Mrs. Royal can lind
convenient residence in that fish which elects
an offensive inky liquid, the moment il is al
tackled The shark, with capacities sufficient
to swallow sin and all her progeny, with insa-
table avdity 20 devour, singularly promiscu-
Gus in its food, destitute OF social habits, The
marauder of the deep, may answer Tor the dis
embodied orator Of the Roanoke.
The trochus, which creeps along the sand
TO bore his way through the hard castle 1T the
oyster, the cold residence OF the clam, or TO
hunt out the nautilus IN the winding rreesses
n: his pearly palace, must be fragment Of
Van Buren,
John Neal should be torpedo, but not a
deadly one; exhaling electricity at every pore.
The sturgeon is an aquatic Souihey, ambl-
tious 10 bewi,ch the world with fantastic leaps,
and rainbow showers, ever springing GU, OF his
na'ural element, and unable to sustain his ell
too full of characters.
Geniss! deep, powerful, glowing genius! has
il no, ever been Dolphin like? tracking LIES
wide oce an wirhSJleh,, and covering its death
with mantle borrowed from the gorgeous drd-
perry Of the sun!
Thee .rl.-lhe slippery, Shiny eel-lhe ser
nerous, lie giving prisoiple,-yet keeping a
tenacious hold on sensual vitality, alter it has
been visited by every form Of death, has too
many prototypes among the politicians OF the
presen, day.
The high cooured, richly favoured salmon
must, ! think, be Of Darician bluod-,herefore
some of our ne4r sighted nobility may become
aristoera,s Of the sea, and die with the eomfor.
table conviction that they shall always have
high price in the market. Mnnows and ale
wives, and all that small fry, ready TO wash
Ell down the Threats Of the grea, FISH, are those
who dance attendance on rank, and sneer at it
because they have none of their own.
The belles-preuy, little, gliding, graceful
things! they shall be gold ard silver hshes.feed-
ing on air. and living in ehrysta boudoin.-
"They that even expect 10 live in glass houses,
should beware how they throw stones"
That strange, half vegetable, half animal
thing, the polypus, whose limbs can be cut of,
and others grated. on, till worse Than Hydras
are produced, is fitting emblem Of those mo-