Kirby, R. S. [Hrsg.]; Kirby, R. S. [Bearb.]: Kirby's Wonderful And Eccentric Museum; Or, Magazine Of Remarkable Characters: Including All The Curiosities Of Nature And Art, From The Remotest Period To The Present Time, Drawn from every authentic Source. Illustrated With One Hundred And Twenty-Four Engravings. Chiefly Taken from Rare And Curious Prints Or Original Drawings. Six Volumes (Vol. IV.) (London: R.S. Kirby, 1820)

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upon by Birch in repairing the steeple at St. Alban’s, and
brought to the greatest perfection by him at Islington, on the
above occasion. A print of the church, with the spire in-
closed in the wicker work, about seven inches square, was
engraved and published by Matthew Skinner, of Camden
Street, Islington, in February, 1788.
EXTRAORDINARY RESOLUTION AND STRENGTH.
Matthew West, by trade a butcher, a prisoner confined
in Newgate, under sentence of transportation, being one of
the ringleaders in an attempt to break out of prison, June 1,
1758, was chained to the floor with his arms extended, and
with an iron collar round his neck, in the condemned room,
but on the 5th of June, got himself loose, and after getting
himself disengaged from the floor, he had the resolution to
wring the collar from his neck, by fixing it between two of
the bars of the goal window, and by main strength broke it
short in two.
Ann. Reg. 1758, p. 99-
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A MAN DROWNED BY A CRAB.
June 30, 1811. A few days ago, John Hall, a labouring
man, went at low water among the rocks, at Hume Head,
near Cawsand, for the purpose of catching crabs, when
meeting with one in the interstices of the rocks, of a large
size, he imprudently put in his hand, for the purpose of pul-
ling it out; the animal, however, caught his hand between its
claws or forceps, and, strange as it may appear, kept its hold
so firmly, that every effort on the part of the poor fellow to
extricate himself proved ineffectual; and no one being at