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at threepence per bushel as manure, used by him to 

 sprinkle over sainfoin and clover. Within a few years 

 fish have been used as manure. Sprats last year sold 

 for eightpence per bushel, and herrings this year for 

 about the same. They have been found to answer 

 well. 



"Sunday, December 1st Met with Mr. G-eorge 

 Bruce, a man lately come from New Zealand, and most 

 curiously tattooed. Says the Zealanders are not can- 

 nibals ; that the island produces flax, potatoes in 

 abundance, with mackerel and various fish. Called on 

 Mr. Roebrook with Mr. Grafter, who took a drawing 

 of the double-headed dog-fish caught off Cape Wrath. 

 It was eight inches long, and parted about the pectoral 

 fins into two heads, and the other parts were com- 

 pletely joined in a vertical manner, the same as if two 

 perfect fish had been placed together. It was one of 

 five found alive within the body of a shark about four 

 feet long. 



" Monday , December 2nd. This evening Mr. George 

 Bruce, naturalized New Zealander, and husband to the 

 late Princess Aetochoe, youngest daughter of Tippa- 

 hee, King of New Zealand (the title which a pamphlet 

 of his gives, printed by T. Plummer, Seething Lane, 

 Tower Street), called on me, and promises, whenever 

 he should be able to get to New Zealand, to send 

 some coral, emeralds, and shells, with skins of birds 

 and other curiosities. He has been at Gravesend about 

 a month, waiting for a ship going to the South Seas (Mr. 

 Bennet, or Mellish, owner), and has, whilst at Gravesend, 

 worked for Mr. Ditchburn, the rope-maker. He showed 

 me a letter from the Earl of Liverpool (by his secretary), 

 wherein his lordship declines interfering in his interest. 



