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Domestic News
February 20, 1817
Daily National Intelligencer
Washington, District Of Columbia
What is this article about?
Unusually cold weather in Cape May, New Jersey, has frozen the sea, caused immense quantities of dead cod fish to wash ashore on the seven-mile beach, and left ducks so weakened and emaciated that they are uneatable, with dogs able to catch hundreds daily.
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Extract of a letter from a gentleman of great respectability in New Jersey, who had lately visited Cape May, to his friend (a member of Congress) in this city
We have had very cold weather. As far as the eye can reach at sea from Cape Island, no water can be seen. Immense quantities of Cod fish have been thrown upon the shores dead—many thousand waggon loads may be got on the seven mile beach; (a few miles from the point of Cape May, on the sea shore side) and the Ducks have suffered so much, and have become so impotent, that a dog will take three or four hundred of a day, but they are not eatable, they are so very poor.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman of great respectability in New Jersey, who had lately visited Cape May, to his friend (a member of Congress) in this city
We have had very cold weather. As far as the eye can reach at sea from Cape Island, no water can be seen. Immense quantities of Cod fish have been thrown upon the shores dead—many thousand waggon loads may be got on the seven mile beach; (a few miles from the point of Cape May, on the sea shore side) and the Ducks have suffered so much, and have become so impotent, that a dog will take three or four hundred of a day, but they are not eatable, they are so very poor.
What sub-type of article is it?
Weather
What keywords are associated?
Cold Weather
Cape May
Cod Fish Die Off
Ducks Weakened
Where did it happen?
Cape May, New Jersey
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Cape May, New Jersey
Outcome
immense quantities of dead cod fish washed ashore; ducks weakened and uneatable.
Event Details
Very cold weather has frozen the sea visible from Cape Island; cod fish thrown dead on shores, many thousand wagon loads on seven mile beach near Cape May; ducks impotent, dogs catching 300-400 daily but not eatable due to poor condition.