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boat was attacked in a most ferocious manner by a 

 shark. After the first attack, the shark leaped 

 from the ocean into the boat, which, from his 

 flouncing he would have sunk, had not another 

 boat, near at hand, come to the relief of the boy. 

 With great difficulty the monster was killed. 

 He measured eight feet in length, was of the most 

 ferocious kind of sharks, called by mariners man- 

 eater. He weighed between three and four hun- 

 dred. 



The Newburyport Herald relates an occurrence 

 which happened in Rowley, not long since. Mr. 

 David Pickard, who was on the marshes, by a nar- 

 row creek, near the mouth of Rowley river, saw a 

 large fish — a shark, as he supposed — making up 

 the creek, with his back above water. Being pro- 

 vided with a gun, he discharged it at the creature, 

 when it made a monstrous leap, and deposited its 

 huge bulk high and dry upon the land. It meas- 

 ured nine feet in length. 



The following fact, published in 1831, on the au- 

 thority of Captain Clark, of the brig Stranger, 

 from St Bartholomews, will corroborate the testi- 

 mony of naturalists, in relation to what has been 

 said of the mode of bringing forth its young, — so 

 different from most other aquatic tribes. 



" Having caught a shark, nine feet long, it was 

 opened on deck, and found to contain fifty two 



