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‘nga were ; grount^ make a hogshead to the acre. ' a*jCa energe-nted with ur friends I bo wellSIVKD.— of a sin.that dardof stSmith as' A Huge Fl8H-—Mr. Martial Ogeron it is now ’ ,i gives us the following description of a Skeptic Mircb*®| monster of the finny tribe lately killed by use andI u formerly 1 him off the mouth of the Lafourche in the it surprisi and Bou- j breakers : Length of the body from point how map, of nose to the tail, 14 feet; length of tail, have bee G feel; extreme width on the back, 20 years, to feet; thickness from top of bock to bottom | sugars, s-of belly, 7 feet; width of moutb 3 feet 6 successfu inches, with horns on either side, 3 feet j to countei establish- loflg ; cavity of brain, 9 by 18 inches. [ has to coi This huge monster, when killed, was of climai lying wiih his month open catching small mmkrt. fish, on which it is supposed to subsist. It The Bi was shot through the head, at the distance answered I of about five paces, and immediately sunk stance wl barrel of^ tbe b^ton,. ]t was thea fastened to, aHe hope Poore on and towed in to shore, where it was dis- and, perh 7th inst.,} sected for the purpose of being converted good Test ipples) up jinto » but * 8torm »”s‘ng* l*,e captor, by those i , » j was forced to abandon the project and fly j used it w!it by Uicj f0f jts |jver waa the siie of a rice j but imperCharles.j c*ak. The exterior of this fish was cov. to employ . mounted i ered with a skin resembling more that of of great r lovelly of an elephant than anything else to which tended apdMOHMbl * , . ,| Mr. Ogeroa is a seafaring man, and fidelity w * says he has never before seen a fish of ducted, arapplause this description in our waters. What in our adv auples tn'kind of a fish is it, and where did H come old and Tremont1 fr°m * Lei us hear from ydu, naturalists! I that weI fTbBwUnx Minerva wjih so i* irer* j We have not a doubt but this is the establishn on 1 61 veritable devil fish, so common on the patronagee present.; . ^ .. r,. . well kno’shores of our southern Atlantic States, (and noted for his devliah pranks with; niendatioc boats’ anchors, etc. There is a book! duct itself somewhere entitled, we believe, M Devil i from evei .ises that Fi8biog on lhe Coast of the Carolina*” j P?™* *r m I is 1^^ c#n ^ Minervilj y00 | ° es rnt reading i ^ ihoroughly enlightened.—{Ed. Cehes. i Ti LunilmA IT Decetn-tis a very* hundred! ! . ,T W4'■ —• cite vfti !
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Houma Ceres
Houma, Louisiana, US
Sat, Nov 22, 1856
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