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A WONDERFUL PRESERVATION.
i he ship Actaeon, Capt. Groat, being taken into the Dock
at Hull, to repair the damage she received, in consequence
of having been 14 days upon a rocky strand on the Island
of Gothland, during her voyage from Narva to Hull, a
large piece of rock, weighing 1O91bs. was discovered fixed
in a plank on the Jarboard-side, nearly in the midships,
and close to the keel, which dropped out immediately on
the sheathing being removed, leaving a large opening into
the hold. Had it fallen out during her passage, she must
inevitably have been lost.-—A singular circumstance is
mentioned in Cook’s Voyages.
Longevity.—Seven persons have died in the course of
a few weeks, whose united asfes amount to six hundred and
seventy-see en years, namely,—Mr. William Shipley, Pro-
jector of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c.
89 years—Mr. G. Pudney, Parish Clerk of Kelvedon,
Essex, 90— Mrs. Fisher, Roy don, Norfolk, 90—Mrs. Oli-
ver, Vine-street, Piccadilly, 95—Mr. John Page, Gardener
to the Asylum, 101—Mr. John Pusell, at Lanvlhangel, 102
A female Pauper in Manchester Workhouse, 110—-In all
677 years.
ACCOUNT OF JOHN OF KENT.
Of the atchievements of this subject of antiquity, the
tongue of rumour, in the town of Grosmont, in Alon-
mouthshire, is never at rest.—Old and young women,
men and boys unite in relating, with extreme volubility,
and without any material disagreement, a series of extraor-
dinary tales' concerning this wonderful personage; and
whom they generally believe, had certainly made a com-
pact with, the deviL ■ v
John
A WONDERFUL PRESERVATION.
i he ship Actaeon, Capt. Groat, being taken into the Dock
at Hull, to repair the damage she received, in consequence
of having been 14 days upon a rocky strand on the Island
of Gothland, during her voyage from Narva to Hull, a
large piece of rock, weighing 1O91bs. was discovered fixed
in a plank on the Jarboard-side, nearly in the midships,
and close to the keel, which dropped out immediately on
the sheathing being removed, leaving a large opening into
the hold. Had it fallen out during her passage, she must
inevitably have been lost.-—A singular circumstance is
mentioned in Cook’s Voyages.
Longevity.—Seven persons have died in the course of
a few weeks, whose united asfes amount to six hundred and
seventy-see en years, namely,—Mr. William Shipley, Pro-
jector of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c.
89 years—Mr. G. Pudney, Parish Clerk of Kelvedon,
Essex, 90— Mrs. Fisher, Roy don, Norfolk, 90—Mrs. Oli-
ver, Vine-street, Piccadilly, 95—Mr. John Page, Gardener
to the Asylum, 101—Mr. John Pusell, at Lanvlhangel, 102
A female Pauper in Manchester Workhouse, 110—-In all
677 years.
ACCOUNT OF JOHN OF KENT.
Of the atchievements of this subject of antiquity, the
tongue of rumour, in the town of Grosmont, in Alon-
mouthshire, is never at rest.—Old and young women,
men and boys unite in relating, with extreme volubility,
and without any material disagreement, a series of extraor-
dinary tales' concerning this wonderful personage; and
whom they generally believe, had certainly made a com-
pact with, the deviL ■ v
John