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Thursday, November 24, 2016
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Thursday, August 6, 1733

Boston, We are informed by a person lately come from Mack Point, in the Eastern parts of the Province, that about a fortnight ago, a very strange Creature was found on the shore there, which the tide had left, about twice as large as an Ox, its head and fore parts resembled a Lion, with […]

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Birds

Thursday, November 24, 2016
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Wednesday, March 10, 1728

Several Gentlemen lately arrived from Holland report, that the inhabitants of that country are very much afraid of a hard winter, by reason of the extraordinary flocking together of Ravenous Land-Fowls towards the sea-coast, an infallible sign, which has very much raised the price of all sorts of provisions there, especially Tobacco, Brandy and Coal.

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Dog

Thursday, November 24, 2016
Published in the New York Gazette, New York, New York on Thursday, February 24, 1735

On Monday last a woman in Dedman’s Place, Southwark London, England leaving a nurse child (a boy about two years old) in a cradle with a puppy to play with it, upon her return found the dog had gnaw’d off the private parts in such a manner, that its life is dispaired of.

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Horse

Thursday, November 24, 2016
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Thursday, May 19, 1735

Boston, May 5, 1735. Last week at Captain Welle’s Farm a large Gelding of his grazing near to a Well of 22 Foot deep by the side of a fence, fell over backwards and dropped to the bottom. One of his servants soon after coming up to the farm came to the relief of a […]

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Oxen

Thursday, November 24, 2016
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Thursday, June 2, 1735

March 8, 1735. We hear from Steining in Sussex, England, that one Legget, a Butcher of that town, killed an Ox the 24th last and found the fat about the Kidneys to weigh 226 pounds, and the lean of it but 2 pounds.

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Wild Boars.

Thursday, November 24, 2016
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Wednesday, January 11, 1736

His majesty, the King of England, at his late Hunting-Match at Gisshorn, killed 17 Wild Boars.

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