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devil-fish. Every available vessel isin requisition,” 
eanoes are launched, and glide rapidly to the snot 
where it is announced that the harpoon has been suc- 
cessfully struck, A string of boats will be seen tow- 
ed to sea for miles away before the monster is brought 
in; and when he comes in, it would take a team of 
‘oxen to drag him ashore, if sucha thing as a team of 
oxen had been ever to be found in Port Royal. If 
am informed that the artillery officers have been 
successful in the chase and capture of two of these 
colossal rays lately. Nothing particular has been 
related to me of their adventures, but if a naturalist 
would realize the excitement of these occurrences 
here, he will find a graphic narrative of the taking 
of two devil-fishes related by Lieutenant Lamont of 
the 91st regiment, in the 11th volume of the Edin- 
burgh Philosophical Journal. 
‘The Lieutenant had been called to the beach by 
some one to join an assembled multitude in looking 
at asea-devil. His curiosity and surprise, were not 
less excited than theirs when he saw floating close 
_on the surface about twenty yards away from him, 
a large living dark coloured mass, whose shape and 
size were not immediately to be deiermined, but 
which looked prodigieusly big, exceeding all that he 
had seen or heard of fishes. It was pursued and 
harpooned, and no-sooner had the weapon struck, 
than the monster made o!f with great velocity, tow- 
ing the boat of the harpooner after him. A succes~ 
sion of boats came up, and these stringing them- 
selves one to another as they consecutively struck 
him, formed a long line, but such was the great 
