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73 AN AQUATIC CASTLE.
bottom, is made fast to a boat above ; and being dragged
over the beds of coral, the consequence is, that the
pieces broken off by the great stone, are collected in the
netting; and from this simple invention, the coral
fishery in those parts have been carried to a considerable
degree of profit and importance.
Extraordinary Fecundity.
•January 1, 1803. The wife of Moses Solomon, a
Jew, in Stoney Lane, Petticoat Lane, was safely deliver-
ed of four children, three girls and one boy, all likely to
live.
In the year 1749, the wife of the Rev. Mr. Mills of
Gallway, was delivered of three children at a birth, after
twenty years marriage without children.
Wolves in France.
A remarkable instance of Courage in a French Officer.
.During the war in 17-59, Count de B———, a young
nobleman not twenty years'of age, going on horseback
from a town in Burgundy to join his regiment, was at-
tacked by a mad wolf of an extraordinary size. The
furious animal first seized the horse, and tore oil such
large pieces of flesh, that M. de B. was soon dismounted.
Then the wolf flew at him, and would certainly have
torn him to pieces, had he not great presence of mind.
With one hand he seized the wolf’s foaming tongue,
and with the other hand laid hold of his paws ; after
struggling a while with the terrible creature, the tongue
dipt from him, and his right thumb was bitten off; upon
which,
bottom, is made fast to a boat above ; and being dragged
over the beds of coral, the consequence is, that the
pieces broken off by the great stone, are collected in the
netting; and from this simple invention, the coral
fishery in those parts have been carried to a considerable
degree of profit and importance.
Extraordinary Fecundity.
•January 1, 1803. The wife of Moses Solomon, a
Jew, in Stoney Lane, Petticoat Lane, was safely deliver-
ed of four children, three girls and one boy, all likely to
live.
In the year 1749, the wife of the Rev. Mr. Mills of
Gallway, was delivered of three children at a birth, after
twenty years marriage without children.
Wolves in France.
A remarkable instance of Courage in a French Officer.
.During the war in 17-59, Count de B———, a young
nobleman not twenty years'of age, going on horseback
from a town in Burgundy to join his regiment, was at-
tacked by a mad wolf of an extraordinary size. The
furious animal first seized the horse, and tore oil such
large pieces of flesh, that M. de B. was soon dismounted.
Then the wolf flew at him, and would certainly have
torn him to pieces, had he not great presence of mind.
With one hand he seized the wolf’s foaming tongue,
and with the other hand laid hold of his paws ; after
struggling a while with the terrible creature, the tongue
dipt from him, and his right thumb was bitten off; upon
which,