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that he was murdered in the Temple, and others that 

 he was spirited away to this country and afterwards 

 became the celebrated Indian preacher, Ilev. Eleazer 

 Williams. It is well known that Mr. Williams died 

 without establishing his claim to the throne of France. 



The figure above referred to, even if not a like- 

 ness, is a curiosity in its way. It is certain that 

 Capt. Coffin brought it here, and it was purchased in 

 a nunnery in France in 1786. At that time the Dau- 

 phin must have been about a year old. It is also cer- 

 tain that those who first obtained possession of it on 

 the island were always emphatic in their declarations 

 that it " was a likeness of the Dauphin of France." 

 The figure is now the property of the Misses Coleman, 

 — to whom the compiler is indebted for the facts m 

 relation to it, — and has always attracted a great deal 

 of attention from all who take an interest in anything 

 connected with the beautiful, but weak and unfortu- 

 nate Marie Antoinette and her husband. 



There are still living in town many persons whose 

 lives possess a romantic interest, among them the last 

 survivor of the ill-fated " Essex "; an " old salt " who 

 brought into the port of Nantucket forty thousand 

 barrels of oil; another who lived for months among the 

 cannibals ; another who has a secret for curing can- 

 cers ; * and a hundred others might be named who 



* The gentleman here referred to has used this cure upon 

 his own person with favorable results, and is emphatic in his 

 declaration that it is a sure cure. The compiler, of course, 

 cannot advertise the medicine in this connection, but is ready 

 to give, at any time, the gentleman's name, for the sake of 

 suffering humanity. 



