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376 Calamine in Missouri. 
chant in New-York: The remainder refused to come up, 
saying there had been too many hoaxes of that kind already. 
Iwas too eager to stand parleying with them, and I return- 
ed to the captain. In the same slow style the serpent passed 
the vessel at about the distance of fifty yards from us, neither 
tmrning his head to the right nor left. As soon as his head 
had reached the stern of the vessel, he gradually laid it down 
in a horizontal position with his body, and floated along like 
the mast of a vessel That there was upwards of sixty feet 
visible is clearly shown by the circumstance, that the length 
of the ship was upwards of one hundred and twenty feet, and 
at the time his head was off the stern, the other end (as much 
as was above the surface) had not passed the main-mast. The 
time we saw him, as described in the drawing, was two min- 
utes anda half After he had declined his head, we saw him 
for about twenty minutes ahead, floating along like an en- 
ormous log of timber. His motion in the water was mean- 
dering like that of an eel, and the wake left behind was like 
‘that occasioned by the passing of small craft through the wa- 
ter. e had but one harpoon on board, and the ship’s long 
boat was, for the time being, converted into a cow housey 
We had two guns on board, but no ball. 
« Two days after we saw him, he was seen by another ves- 
sel off Cape Cod, about two hundred miles from, where he 
made his appearance to us. This intelligence reached New- 
ork about four days after we arrived there, and the des- 
cription given exaetly corresponded with the foregoing. 
dined one day at the hotel of New-York with Sir Tsaac Cof 
fin, who discredited the existence of such an animal, which 
was reported to have been seen by Capt. Bennet, of Boston, 
about five years back ; but, as I assured him I had never 
heard, previously, even the report of such a monster, and 
that I was an Englishman, he gave full credit to it. 
sketch I gave him corresponded with the description that was 
circulated at that time. The humps on the back resembled 
in size and shape those of the dromedary- 
remain, dear sir, yours respectfully, : 
Wa. WARBURTON.” 
ee National Gazette of Philadelphia 
si VII. Calamine in Missouri—Messrs. Troost and LE- 
‘SUEUR haye discovered in Jefferson co. at a place called ~ 
“Walle’s Diggings, the Carbonate of Zinc, in great abun- 
