The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-03-06

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an t.I t4 year 81, I4lur ~ st0
|~a.nil8a and Joined th- southern
Methodist Episcopal Conference
am destitute ~ al details snd yet ~
ana J we're very genuine friends AZ
Ter ls3s. when ! fast met him al the
North Carolina Conference IN session
at Beaufort ] Deyc. had any CONVEX
sai."n with him a~ to his early lire
and regret chat ] die NOT learn ft8m
him all about his 5oEh.od conversion
uniting with the church II cod. his
varied experience AMI his louEnL To
America. That HE was indeed ms
faithful friend ! NOT doutt. all
though Tic never conferred Il f4.or
upon me nag ! upon him. Thr Hicaf
before ne left Raleigh fen the North
tine Conference being in session
tiletc1 he came Ia my boafdiu.,
house t" bid IN goodbye on "a very
dark night, H said he could not
talnk ii leaving North Carolina With
out giving me q farewell grasp of the
hand. ! expressed To him mN pro-
round regret that he Mas leaving thu.
North Carolina Conference chat had
very much need of a man Of his tai
ents and acquisition. whercupon h~
gd-Ne me his reasons. -As thet h8d ref
tIence 10 two members OF the Con
terence ! refrain from particulars
4 hat WAS, / guess. about 49,. some
twenty years after his body was
brought t. Wilmington for inteIment
The night after the burial. his
the gentleman and his wife. IN. IN,
MIS-. Kennedy. At whose home IL
New York City Dr. Moran lived for
q III closest ties of friendship. dnd
where he died. came 10 my home in
Wilmington. and said that they could
not think OF leaving the city without
calling 10 see me rs / was held IN
such very high esteem Ly their de
parted friend. These two circum-
stances gave me every assurance that
my departed friend wore me in his
heart until he fell ON sleep" and the
Information was most delightful
". ! have not material of any kind
with which to construct a personal
paper. | knew him SO well that Il
greatly admired his superb talents.
his seeming brusQueness, his noble
independence of character, his pro-
found sincerity, his exalted
sense Of honor, his fidelity to
convictions and his patient discharge
OF duty. In the early summer of 1860.
| received Il call from him ut Hall
fax, the old Colonial town on the
Roanoke, where / was then living. lie
told me he had come to take me
With him TO see "the bone Iasled
what bone?' He was astonished
that had not SO mu1h as heard OF
II. lie told nc that he WAS having
it ~cEcayated, and it was just cut Of
town. He had come in a car1iage
from Tarboro. thirty-six miles lis
tant. rode With him, end | saw The
bone As YOU leave HaiifaN on the
w. & W. railroad for Enfield, You
pass over Il bridge stretched across a
stream of very remarkable kind. It
almost encirclcd the town, and below
it elnptied into Roanoke river. The
stream referred to is called Ouankee
If that is the spelling. III q per
fectly Tat section it has banks high
er than the great trees that grew
beside it, and they are covered with
evergreens. Beyond this noteworthy
stream some two hundred Yards,
perhaps. is q deep ravine--some
twenty-five or thirty feet deep-that
has a little branch of Il few feet Wide
running down to the natural outlet in
Quankee. In that little branch to my
unskilled ewes there appeared to be
Il ledge of rocks q few feet wide
ginning, held my friend. of the under
jaw bone of = whale. He had Oh
the opposite bank several negroes en-
gagged in ~eXcaVating the bone. We
found two White men sitting on the
side of the descent some zen feet
aobya the supposed bone. one. DR..
William Hill. born in the Wilmington
asked of the Doctor if it
would not save time to take parts of
the supposed bone and subject il to
analysis. DR.. Moran was a SKILLED
geologist. His reply was. not at all
If YOU viii put q limb of a tree and
4 genuine bone in water, anG subject
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through the ages they Will be in the
end precisely alike. as to what they
and YOU could not by analy-
sis tell the one from the other.
give from m after more than
forty-six years. Dr. Moran was more
precise and elaborate than | have
The result of the excavation
probably twelve OF fifteen feet III
Or. Moran wrote q deScrin-
ton and gave = picture Of the bone,
and sent it to the famous g~ccloSiSt at
Yale University, Connecticut whose
name ] have forgotten. lie wrote an
answer that it was certainly what Df.
Moran said-thc undcr-jaWbone Of a
whale. | believe that the zone Nas
afterwards Dlaced in the state
Museum al Raleigh. 1t is probably
rhan one hundred miles from
where found to the Atlantic ~sea-shore-
Some fourteen miles from thdt bone
is still another bon of Il whale OF
gigantic proDortions. IT is The entire
backbone. with the exception Of
articulation that has been sent 10 the
Museum. 1T les noW-in 1906
AS it did in 1860. and as it had lain
down fully fifty years before i'll men
recollection. and long before the
IA bilious discovery IF North America
by Christopher Columbus in f492. but
Of which he never even 50 muCh
as heard. 1t is buried in Fishing Creek
some two o. three miles from Enfield.
and probably 100 wards above the
railroad bridge. / knew an elderly
of much respectability who told
me in 1854 that when he was Il boy
he used To cross the stream on that
backbone. At the time he told me
the stream covered the bone by about
r foot. That bone is no doubt more,
than loo miles from the Atlantic.
not doubted in thirty years OF
more han the entire section from
Wilmington to Petersburg. Va. was
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