From the Depths of the Briny.
The best * recovery ’ ever heard of was that of the famous pipe of Madeira, of which the remnant, amounting to iortyfour bottles, was sold in 1858, at the Duchess of Ragusa’s sale, to the late Baron James Rothschild, literally and truly for its weight in gold. This ‘ pipe ’ was on board an East Indiaman, which was wrecked off Flushing in 1778, and it lay at the bottom of the sea until 1814, when it was fished up, and Louis XVIII. purchased the whole of it, except Bix dozen bottles, which the French consul at Antwerp managed to detain, and he sold all he got to the Duke of Ragusa.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 471, 14 May 1890, Page 5
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115From the Depths of the Briny. Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 471, 14 May 1890, Page 5
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