178 German Correspondent.—LExploring Expedition, &e. 
19. German Correspondent. 
‘We have perused, with pleasure, the first numbers of the 
German Correspondent, an occasional miscellaneous paper 
published in N ew-York, and devoted to German literature 
and science, with which it is the aim of the very respecta- 
ble Editor to bring his countrymen better ie roe The 
dee} is well worthy of encouragement, and the more so, 
ermans appear particularly well disposed award 
the Vited States. 
20. Exploring Expedition. 
We are informed that Gov. Cass of Michigan, aided by 
D. B. Douglass of the corps of Engineers, one of. the 
assistant Professors at the West Point Military Academy, 
_ and pres, will proceed very soon, on an expedition along 
the southern and western shores of lake Superior, an 
through the district of country generally between lake Mi- 
ane and the Missisippi, and the head waters of that river. 
connexion with negociations on Indian affairs, every 
vikeccabNs degree of attention will be bestowed on the na- 
tural Say ce of the country—on its mineralogy—botany, 
geoprap We anticipate, from this source much val- 
ab! sifeematot: 
21. Mermaid. 
Extract from the log book of the ship Leonidas, sailing 
From New-York — ye Asa Swift master ; May 
1817. Lat. 44°, 6’ nort BS 
_ First part of the day light variable winds and cloudy ; at 
two P. M. on the larboard quarter, at the distance of about 
half the ship’s length, saw a strange fish. Its lower parts 
were like a fish; “its ‘belly was all white ; the top of the 
back brown, and there was the appearance of short hair as 
far as the top of its head. From the breast upwards, it had 
a near resemblance to a human being and looked upon the 
observers very earnestly ; as it was but a short distance from 
the ship, all the afternoon, we had a good opportunity to 
observe its motions and shape. No one on board ever sa¥ 
the like fish, before; all believe it to be a Mermaid. 
