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pense may be incurred in searching for the ob 

 struction, — the eel sliding along, from point to 

 point, as the workmen proceed. Such is their 

 tenacity of life, that they could live years togeth- 

 er, in this way, — therefore there is no hope that 

 death and dissolution of the body, will speedily 

 remedy the evil. A few years since, in taking up 

 a joint of the aqueduct in Boston, which conducts 

 the water from Jamaica Pond, in Roxbury, an 

 eel nearly two feet in length was taken from the 

 log, that quite filled its calibre. 



Prof. Hitchcock has furnished us with a speci- 

 men of the silver-eel, so called, in the vicinity of 

 Amherst College, which, though a little smaller 

 than the common mud-eel, precisely resembles it, 

 and therefore we are inclined to the opinion that 

 the shining color on the sides, which has given it 

 the name, is an accidental circumstance. 



In the salt ponds of Martha's Vineyard, where 

 the tide water flows in, an eel is taken, called the 

 meshaiu-eel which has been supposed to be pecu- 

 liar to that region. David Eckley, Esq. of Boston, 

 who has a better and more practical knowledge of 

 scientific angling, than any gentleman in the cir- 

 cle of our acquaintance, has given it as his opinion 

 that this is a new species. Not having it in our 

 power to procure a specimen, at this particular 

 juncture, — when the compositor is constantly re- 



