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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



FOR THK NEW EMGI.ANU PARMER. 



THE YEOMAN. 

 Happy the roan, who courts a country life, 

 And holds no stake in mad ambition's strife, 

 Where every rogue would fain supplant his brother. 

 And men seem born to worry one another ; 

 And women too — but pray, Miss Muse ! stop there — 

 We ne'er permit you to abuse the Fair. — 

 The man is blest who shuns each buitling mart 

 The proud emporium of each ui?eless art, 

 Whom Nature's simplest lineaments can please. 

 Whose days are spent in exercife and ease. 

 Without those cares, which pride and wealth annoy. 

 And dash with poison Grandeur's cup of Joy. 

 He gathers Health from herbs the forest yields, 

 And culls his physic from the flowery fields. 

 Thus lires a stranger to each deadly ill. 

 Whose ne plus ultra is the Doctor's bill. 

 His heart is large, although his means are small, 

 His door still open to the needy's call ; 

 But in his dealings so correct and square. 

 Lawyers and sheriffs have no business there. 

 No duns put off with "please to call again," 

 And Charity ne'er asks his boon in vain. 

 This man enjoys more real bliss below 

 Than kings possess or nobles ever know. 



From the President of the Ncxe-York Lycnim of 

 .Yatural Historii, to the Members, dated A'ew- 

 York, Sept. U, 1023. 



THE VAMPIRE OF THE OCEAN. 



On the 9th day of September, 1823, rptiirn- 

 ed from a cruize off Deliiware Bay, the tjshin^ 

 smuck Una. She had sailed about throe weekt 

 before from New York, for the expross pur- 

 pose of catching an enormous fish, which had 

 been reported to frequent the ocean a few 

 leagues beyond Cape May and Cape Henlopon. 

 The adventurers in this bokl enterprize have 

 been successful. They have brought for the 

 ?Ml?J[&.'^'"ent of science and the e;ratii^''<''Jon of 



ill' "" """ ^-'...ouant of the deep, 



wliicti has never been seen on' the land before 



Ihe creature is one of the huge individual* 

 ot the family of Raja ; or perhaps may be 

 erected, from its novelty and peculiarity, into a 

 new genus, between thai, the Sqmlus, and the 

 .'Icipencer. Its strength was such that after the 

 body had been penetrated by two strong and 

 well formed gigs of the best tempered iron, the 

 shank of one of them was broken oil", and the 

 other singularly bent. The boat, containin-' the 

 three intrepid men, John Patchen, Theop'hilus 

 Beebe, and William Totter, was connected, af- 

 ter the deadly instrument had taken hold, with 

 the wounded inhabitant of the deep, by a stron- 

 warp or line. The celerity with which h^ 

 swam, could only be compared to that of the 

 harpooned whale, dragging the boat after it 

 witii such speed as to cause a wave to rise on 

 each side ol the fuirow in which he moved, 

 several feet higher than the boat itself 



Tne weight of the fish after death was such 

 hat three pair of oxen, one horse, and twenty- 

 two men, all pulling together, with the surge 

 of Ihe .Atlantic wave to help, could not convey 

 i far to the dry beach. It was estimated from 

 th.s, and a probable estimate, to equal four tons 

 and a half, or perhaps five tons. 



The size was enormous; for the distance 

 from the extremity of one wing or pectoral fin 



to the other, expanded like f.'ne wing of an ea- 

 gle, measures, ....... 18 feet. 



Over the convexity of the back, and 

 on the right line r.j 'the belly, . . IG feet. 

 The distance, from the snout to the 



end of thct,,i|, ]4 fggf 



Lpn^Vn of the tail, 4 feet. 



Vv'idth of the mouth, .... 2 ft. 9 in. 

 The operation of combat and killing lasted 

 nine hours. It was a heroic achievement, and 

 was witnessed by crowds of citizens on the 

 shores of New-Jersey and Delaware, and by 

 persons on board the flotilla of vessels in the 

 bay and offing. 



During the scuffle, the wings, side flaps or 

 vast alated fins of the monster, lashed the sea 

 with such vehemence that the spray rose to the 

 height of thirty feet, and rained round to the 

 distance of fifty feet. It was a tremendous en- 

 counter. Ou shore all was awe and expecta- 

 tion. 



Mr. Patchen, whose taste and zeal in zoolo- 

 gy are well known, has attended very much to 

 the manners of the Vuwpire of the Ocean, to 

 the preservation of the skin and external parts, 

 to the osteology and skeleton, the internal or- 

 ganizations ; and in short, to every circumstance 

 that was practicable during such a hazardous 

 business and the tempestuous vveatiier which 

 distressed them almost from the beginning to the 

 end . f their voyage. 



I merely mention, before I lay down my pen, 

 that this animal is viviparous, and of course 

 connects fishes with mammif'erous animals; and 

 that the respiratory, motory, and generative 

 and sensitive organs, present an extraordinary 

 amount of rare and interesting particulars. In- 

 comprehensible as well as wonderful are thy 

 works, (.) Creator ! in consummate sagacity thou 

 hast expcnto-i tkom „ii! 



This is but an outline ; I intend to finish this 

 sketch;^ and prepare it as well as I can for the 

 Society's formal notice. 



While I express full approbation of our 

 triends, whom neither difficulty nor danger 

 could discourage, I utter a further sentiment 

 that they may be well repaid by their intended 

 exhibition. SAMUEL L. MITCHELL 



Ingenious and vseful invention. — Amongst the 

 new Parisan inventions is a coffee pot construct- 

 ed ot three pieces : the first is a plain boiler, 

 over that is a double filtcrer, and at the top is 

 an inverted coffee pot, which fits on exactly 

 Cold water is placed in the first vessel, and the 

 coffee in the filtering pot. Under the whole is 



pint lamp, which in the course of five or six 

 minutes causes the water to boil, the vapor aris- 

 ing from which completely saturates the coffee. 

 Hnen the water boils, which is ascertained by 

 • he discharge of the vapor from the spout of Ihe 

 inverted coffee pot, the whole machine is lifted 

 irom the lamp, and completely inverted so that 

 the pot, which was uppermost, is at the bottom, 

 and the boiling water, which hadsaturaled the 

 cohee, flows through the filterer, clear, into 

 what was f)efore the inverted coflee pot, where, 

 in the space of two minutes, it is ready for use. 

 This mode of preparing coffee is a saving of at 

 least 25 per cent, and it secures the fine flavor 

 of the berry. In another part of the service is 

 a codee roaster of glass, over another lamp of 



three minutes, and even so small a quI^Ut^L 

 an ounce may be thus prepared "^ 



York (Eng.) Musical Festival— It is compJ 

 that the necessary expenditure in fhis org 

 undertaking, which has the patronage of, 

 dukes and lords for aiding the respective fui 

 of the four general infirmaries in this counl 

 will not be less than 7000/. 183 inslrumeni 

 performers are already engaged and 264 voJ 

 VIZ. 72 cantos, 60 counters, 60 tenors, 72 ba| 

 Charity being the object of the performaD| 

 and the period fixed upon immediately af 

 Donchcster races, the promoters calculate u( 

 the largest assemblage of company that e\ 

 took place on a similar occasion. 



FRUIT&'ORNAMEOTALTRE] 



"TIOR sale, as usual, at the Kenrick plack, n ' 

 J_ lirighlon. The iNurseries have been much ei 

 larged, and contain a variety of Pears, Apples, Cher 

 nes Hums, Apricots, &c.— Also, the finest Nursery 

 budded Peach-Trees known in America; consisting 

 a choice collection of about 30 of the most appro 

 kinds in our best gardens, or seen in the Markets. 1 

 trees are from 5 to G feet high, and sold at the Nursi 

 at the moderate price of 33 1-3 cents each. 



Of good sized ornamental trees ; the Floweri 

 Horse-Chesnut ; Flowering Catalpa ; European Moi 

 tain-Ash ; Weeping Willow ; the evergreen Silver " 

 and the Larch. English Walnuts and Butternuts," 

 of which are justly admired for their fruit. Th" la 

 is a hardy, handsome tree, and its bark valuable 

 dyes and medicine. 



Curraut bushes of the large prolific red kind, of 

 sizes, by the dozen, hundred, or thousand, on ml 

 erate terms : Also the Black, White, and Champa: 

 do. Red and White Roses; Lilacs; English Gra 

 Gooseberrieu, ,tc. &c. 



Orders addressee to John, or William Kenrick, 

 sent to the Brighton Post-om.T.p q,. jjje Office of 

 Samuel Dana, Broker, in Congress-.tvoct, Boston, 

 be duly attended to. 



N. B. Trees will be packed in clny and mats, 

 hipping, and conveyed to Boston when ordered :' 

 rcntlemen at a distance should employ some ageni 

 eceive and pay for them. 



Oct. 4. 



a long wide flame. The roaslino- require" about ^A^7''^^f ^^"^"^""^ '^ "" 

 "a '*-^lui'C5 uuoui I Music performs every even 



NEW ENGLAND MUSEUM, I 



76, COURT STREET, BOSTO.Y, t; 



CONTAINING much more numerous Collectiom 

 and greater variety of entertainments than an* 

 other Establishment in America, continues steadily ft 

 increase, and is open for the reception of visiters 

 EVERY DAY AND EVENING. 

 It will be constantly in the best possible condili, 

 and every exertion made to render the visits of its p 

 rons agreeable. 



This Establishment now contains FIVE former i., 

 seums united in ONE, together with very great a 

 numerous additions (the whole receipts being faithfu 

 laid out to increase it.) 



JUST ADDED, 

 The celebrated Race Horse Eclipse, 

 .'V beautiful Cosmoramic View of London, 

 A large and beautiful live Rattlesnake, 

 The Arabian Bottle, made of the stomach of | 

 Camel — holds about a barrel — used to carry wati 

 across the desert. 

 The Invalid's Chair — very ingenious — invenfe_ 



by Professor Peck. 

 A very large and elegant Sword Fish, upwards 

 of 14 feet long, with a sword 4 J-2 feet long. 

 There is also now residing in the Museum, Mr. .To- 

 SKPH M. Stevens, the most remarkable Dwarf ever 

 witnessed in the U. States. He is handsome, ch'eeiAil, 

 and gentlemanly in his deportment; in his 20th year; 

 37 l-i> inches high, and weighs 34 lbs. 



fti7=The Museum is well lighted, and a Hand of 

 Admittance 2o cent* 



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