LOBSTERS SIX FEET LONG

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 118, 14 November 1925, Page 16

LOBSTERS SIX FEET LONG

CATKJHT IN NEW YORK WATER

YEARS AGO,

A lobster thirty-seven inch.es long and weighing eighteen and a quarter pounds caused a sensation in Nova Scotia a. few weeks ago^-just as it would cause a Sensation in New Y°vk Oity, pays the "New York Tirose- 1' ■

Such enormous' lobsters were caught in New York Harbour long ago. It is pretty safe to say, however, that there are no survivors. The- last ona of such gigantic size was .caught here. shortly before the War of Independence. W. JSddis, in a book entitled "Letters. Fronj Ameriga," written jn J. 792, says that •jrjonster crustaceans five or six feot iv length were taken fn New, York waters before the- war with lijhglanil, but that ''fiirice the lato cannonading they have entirely forsaken the coast, hot une having been taken or seen, since the comnjencernent of hostilities." In the middle of the seventeenth cep■tury Adriaen vgh dcr Dpuck, a rnen)ber of the Council of Peter Stuyvesant in 1649, kept a, journal in whjpli he de> scribed sonje of tho natural reaources of New Yofh, B« msfltioned the monster lobsters, but said that "those a foot loag are better for serving at table."'