LOBSTERS SIX FEET LONG.

Shannon News, 1 December 1925, Page 2

LOBSTERS SIX FEET LONG.

CAUGHT IN NEW YORK WATER YEARS AGO. A lobster 3 7 in. long and weighing' 18 Jib caused a sensation .in Nova Scotia a few weeks ago—just as it would cause sensation_ in New York (says the New York Times). Such enormous lobsters were caught in New York Harbour lsong ago. It is pretty safe to say, however, that there are no survivors. The last one of such gigantic size was caught here shortly before the War of Independ * nee- W. Eddis, in a book entitled "Letters from America," written -in 1792, says that monster crustaceans five or six.feet in length were taken In New York waters before the war yith England, but that "since the lato cannonading they have entirely for. saken the coast, not one having been taken or seen since the commencement of hostilities." In the middle of th e seventeenth century Adriean van" der Douck, a member of the Council of Peter Stuyvesant in 1649, kept a journal in which h e describes some of the natural resources of New York.' He mentioned the monster lobsters, but said that "those a foot long are better for serving at table."