kingston vol 1 j ronicle friday afterxooy decembnr h 1819 no 51 t toimkins co baohbimltrs st at toners tsc kespectfullt inform the inhab itant of kingston and its vieini- itv that they have commenced the above business near the government house and they hope by strict attention and moderate charges to nhrt with support rooms papered porlt bonks made io patterns account books hided and made to any fze or pttlici ti kingston november 30 1si9 494 executive councu ojjkt tori i jth novembers s 1 g whereas the prefenr lease of the perry from toe town of kingflon to point frederick will expire on the 24th day of june next notice is hereby given by qrcfer of his excel lerjcy the lieutenant governor ttt coun cil that fralcd propofals for a new leafe to be given tn the higheft bidder will be received at tins office until the 10th of june sco 49 john small c k r labkb- mcdonell opposite fhc market tctng sfra t kspkctfully inform heir friends and he public that ihey have received part of their fa goods among wuicu aki ladles pelisse cloths most fashionable colors west of england superfine blue and clark cloth grn blue bfosfe brornoive and drab cloth- nndcv- simeres red white greets ijluc and yellow ricmuts rose llankt won- ted shftts and drawers marseille- quilfs nud counterpanes chintz furni ture with lining fringe and binding to match scarlet and bjoe imoreen sfar let waterloo blue salmon sage drab fawn and peach colored casstmeie shawls merino and can for crap sriw is siilvshawlsaiul handkerchief flagi bandannas satin silks lotl law a jaekonefte and mull muslin corded cambric book muslin dresses ljnrkmnsiiutrimiriucnmbrier stripe cotton red blue derry stri ped cambric ginghams vcstings bnmba- zcens and bombazctres tartan plaid turkey stripe brown holland irisli linens cotton shirting white cflttoilj diaper and diaper table cloths green and blue table covers dimity furni ture hearth rttgs brusvlia lu scotch shirting black silk veils rel treble gilt coat buttons c e rib bons tapes threads cotton balls so v- ing silk and twist ladys white jhki black silk stocking slate colored and black worsted hose boys girls do do mens lambs wool half linse do worsted do ladies slate colored black and white silk gloves mens lined bea rer and kid do mens lined beaver and buck skin gloves jlso a grept variety of other articles too numerous o mention the whole com- er of a bond that was in my own rthe purchafe made of it in i 8e 6 new goods thomas aske w has juft received his winter aiturt- ment of fafhionabie dry goods opened for falcat mrs finkles honfe and at the lowed poffible rate for cafii a- mongft which are 3 m and 4 point blanket 9 id and ll 4 rose dp superfine cloths cassimeres pelisse cloths hosiery i jaberdaslicry ic kingston 25th nov 1819 3 ftrhe fubferiber feels it his duty from jl the villainous treatment he has receiv ed to guard the public againft any impo- fiiinn 00 the part of mr sohmon johns by his offering to fell any part of half an acre lor vith buddings thereon in the vil lage of erneft town bounded on the cad j by the farmers store and on the weft by the property of the heirs of the late john davy as any title to the ud property held by him was fraudulently obtained by a furrend name for tlie pu when johns wa at low wages and 2 can be made appear evidently by virions proof taken at r he time of the examination of his tranfaions in isfz- had no fhadow of a claim pete k gk nt the oerfon who rs dated to hold a gond for a deed for half the above pn jckv from johns was acquainted with my jfl pretenfion in the lift inllance but any thing to anfvver the purpofe p- o notice all thofe who are indebted to mr john whitelaw late of kingflon arc rcquefted to make immediate pymen to the fnbferiber who is duly authttfitcd to rlceive the fame a pringle kingston zctj a 1819 48 uie 15th december nexr the accounts will be put into the hands of an attorney for colleflion j anchors cables william budden wxtxl eccivc by the cailieil fpring v vcflcls and keep cnnratitly on hand at quebec an aftortmcnt t patent proved chain cables of all sizes prises a eomph tc assortment of r goods w hith tlu will sell very low for cah klifgsm nov is 1s19 47 notice the fubferiber has just received a quantity of double and single stove of vai ions fizes and of new and elegant patterns which he offers for faleat montre al price and charges for cafh he has alfo receive- in addition to hh farmer orrvlv leveral t us ot bffgikh and bpcdes iron as sorted mcel hoop and round ditto kivt hods grimkants anvils and vices double and single sheet iron trace and log chaum jvrol and cut naifs allvhcs milks bemows hollow wave of av dene ri prions cut pit and mill saics carriers and lintseed oil hagonaud cart boxes iron and brass ifire a good aflbtiment of saddlery stamped and cast brafs cabinet furniture with an excenfne aftortrnent of shelf goods confisting of mo- rrticks in the hard ware line too noiueroua to mention john w atkins n b flour for falc kingston november 16th i s 19 mih a reward of fm hundred and fifty pounds will be paid by tlie subscriber to any perfon who mail discover and ve fuch information as will convia the perfon or pcrlons who on or about the 29th or 301i1 of june laft ft from uwrg ridout esq at walkers hotel a rated containing montreal bank bills l fine dollars ench to the amount of two limwlana pnunds by ohpuoi of the txxtu of the auidrrfici bank thomas markland anchors o well worthy the attention of thofe enra ged in the lake and river navigation quebec ift april i8iq ijlf alexander hope laic farrier in t1te2tl queens ijght ffragwna egs uae to taibrm the inhabitants of kingiton ud s vicinity that he has rented the hop of mr james meagh er near the market mace where he in tends carrying on th lilackimtliin bmfcmfc in dl its 1 vttom branches and he flutters hirnlf from the long ex perience he has hzc m the above line to ive fattafasion to dl wfeo may plene to favour hint with t rir cutfom and on as reafonable terms as t any other fhop in the place kingston 2d den- x 1 9 49 t 6ti jqmaq i uosurj t-3- dewpjpj l hwjouo 10 aj pnurib v yimisci uojeij yi 01 pajdepe 6 aj ef i zr atj jet j ajjqnd it mwejw mwiysp mihw ariuli sao msii jsotjce nrie fubferiber has now and will con- jl ttauc to have at liia brewery a fup- p of rich flavored ale hk preterit price i one fhiding per gal- on lor immediate payment the admi- reii dfexira itroog bodied ale are refpc6t- iuliy intormed that f ag pofiibie he wiil provice a dock thai will satiny the molt fafttdious critic lie thinks it will not be amifsto remind the fatmera who wiethe misuftjic pco pic ihvt il they wih their grain to com mand cafh they rmii ai fumjy make malt liquot 1 heir conm r lxcmtrngti anj thus i j re c c un ciitwra inncad ir 1 the wti iridiii diitillera h is ol ieri- tr confe- both to tbcmlclves and to the whole cmotry that they hould im mediately adopt ij pnukworthy a iclolu tion orders fent to te ijrewery or left with mr jotui ius tl ai mith bartlet hjtjs will meet with due attention i homas dal10n kingston dreucry oct 26 1819 n ji gruiti ml ail times for lile 7 jd per bulht 44 from bakezvelps geology notice fttlhe lafc partnership of robert grit- si hom co having diwdird ifh this day by the death of rod eric h mao kay ksqthe business in fiiturr- v ill h carried on by the subscriber to whom nil persons who are indebted to the above linn will please pav theiraccotms with out delay and those who may have claims n gainst that concern will please present them for adjustment 29 aobeut graham toint frederick 21stsep is s3- to clothiers porsale a quantitv f hm2ss papers tho s wbfakcr co dugust 19 119 34 war sale at tfm office a few copies of a sermox zjl preached al quebec on h 2th of september after fbe draflj rf mi grace the dtrivkor iticiimovo y tite reverend i j mountain a- ij biiojs official in lower canada and rector of quebec j for tds at thv tjire the montreal almanac alexander asiilr merchant taylor as received from montreal a moll choice id excellent ahortment of the belt well of england fuperfine t toits and cassinreres with trimmings and every thing com- plete a asher informs tis friends and tin public that he tfl now working up thefe lloths sec at i is old land where orders will be thankfully received and executed on the horteft notice and on the lowed terms foi caflr or fhort approved credit kingfton sept 10 1819 3 7 f rfpurlie faitms for sale 1 for 1820 huten tth loj j 8 19 agent 47 is george scougal late master smith in the enosi- veer drparimentj egs leave to inform his friends and the public in general tha he has commenced bufinefs next door below mr george doulakv store street where every article in h line may be had ou the moft reafonable term and on the hoi tell notice the following rates of charges arc fubmitted horse shoeing all round 68 removes 25 and all other work in proportion kingston dpril 5 i 8 1 9 15 m to let a commodious house near dodlor keating 5 two stories high with seven rooms a kitchen and a cellar under the whole a prond yard and stable also a very good spring near the house for further particulars apply to ambs robins kingston tyh juzc 1 j 9 2 or if not fold to be rented for tht en fubg year viz me at the prefque lie harbor one at waterloo aid the pickt farm fo called a contraft alfo will hi vp for iuiinr t cwsr m y whitney kngjon qb jun 1x19 25tf j f aspiiisbury f late surgtan of ti jv prtncc re- ni hills oulurio i intend- practising in the various luauthesof his prof moii ar ins resv idenc next doorto john mclean v jvtshmijr i khtgslmi oct gth lsi 9 41 notice a ll perfons indebted to tlie late co- a- pa s partnefiiip of richard robhon and daviil secordy ate requested to make im mediate payment to the furviving partner david secord and thofe to whom the faidd cent of 1798 the crater re- copartnerfttp may be indebted aic le- mained inactive nor did its bottom fall in earthquakes ivlcjnoes continued volcanoes an- pennings made in the earths fur face by interna fires they icgularly or at intervals throw out fmoke vapour flame large lones fand and mched ftoue called lava some volcanoes throw out torrents of mud and boiling water volcanoes moft frequently exift in the vicinity of the fea or large lake and alio break out from u fathom able depths below the furface and form ntw iflands and reefs of rock when a volcano breaks out in a new fituatfon it is piecided by violent earthquakes the heated fuiface of the ground frequettly f wells and heaves up until a fiffure or rent is formed fomctimea of vaft extent through this opening mafles of rock with flame fmokc and lava are thrown out and choke up part of tlie paflfage and confine the eruption to one or more apertures round which conical hills or mountains are formed the concavity in the centre is called the cratei the indications of an apptoaching eruption from a dormant volcano are an increafe of frnoke from the fummit which fomctime nfeg to a vaft height branch- ing in the form of 3 pine tree tremendous explohons like the firing of artillery com mence after the increafe o frnoke and are fucceeded by red coloured flames and fhowcrs of hones at length the lava flows out from the top of the crater or breaks through the fides of the mountain and covers the neighboring plains with melted matter which becoming con folidatedj forms a ftony mafs often not lefs than fome hundred fquare miles in extent and feveral yaids in thicknefs the eruption of lava has been known to con ttnuc feveral months intenfely black clouds empofed of a kind of darkcolrurcd fand or powder improperly called afhes aie thrown out of the crater after the lava ceafes to il w and fbmetiuies invove the furrounding ci uniry in total darknefs at noon day towards the concltfion the colour of the volcanic faul obiu- to uliic it conltfts of ptimicc in a fintly coo minuted hate the quantity thrown out i fometimes immcnfe- during an ciupii in of ietna a pace 1 f one hundred and fifty miles in circuit w3fl covered with a firatum of thi fard twelve feet thick when the lva flws freely the earth quakes and explofums become lefs violent which proves that tluy were occafi med by the confinement of the erupted matter boih gafous and folid the frnoke and vapour of volcanoes are highly clerical the long period of repofe which fome- timcs takes place between two eruptions of the fame volcano is particularly re markable from the building of rome to the 791i1 year of the chviftian xra no mertiou is made of vefuvius though it j had evidently been in 2 prior ftate of activity as hcrculan um and pompeii which were defiroyrd by the eruption of that year are paved with lava from the 1 th to the 16th century it remained quit t lor nearly four hundred years and the crater was overgrown with lofty trees it wasdefcended by biacchini an italian writer prior to the great eruption of 163 1 the bottom was at that time a vaft plain furroundtd by caverns and grottoes etna has continued burning fince the time of the poet pindar with occafional intervals of tcpofe feldom exceeding thirty or forty years- the eruptions of the peak of tenenffc have been very rare during if- laft two centuries aecordforto hummmr it long intervals of repofe appear to characterise volcanoes highly elevated strombuh which is one of the loweft is always burning the eruptions of ves uvius are rair but ftdl more frequent than tliofe of ietna the coloffal fum- mits of the andes cotopaxi and tun- gurahua fcarcely have an eruption once in a century the peak feemed to be extinguished for ninety two years when it made its laft eruption by a lateral opening in 179 in this interval vefuvius had fixtecn eruptions the grcateft erup tions of lava from jeiml and vesuvius are always from the fides of thefe mountains but thefe lateral eruptions iinifh by an ejection of a flies and flames from the crater at the fnmmit of the mountain in the peak of teneriife this phenomenon has not taken place for ages and in the re quelled to fend in their accounts for ad- ju intent and payment kmgftoo 27th may 1819 26tf persons having books belonging to the kingston library are requeft ed to fend them to the fubferiber at his houfe adjoining the town of kingfton and with as little delay as poffible john ferguson 1 2th april 1819 16 f he fubferibers being duly nomina jl ted executors to the lalt will and teftament of the late lawrence hcrchma efqinre merchant requeft all ptrfons in debted to his ftate to make immediate payment and thole having demands again ft the laid e ftate to bring them forward with out dcicy tohn kirby geo h markland ivhflon 9th nov 1819 46 submarine volcanoes arc preceded hy a violent boiling and agitation of the water and by the difcharge of volumes of gas and vapour which take fire and roll m fiieeta offlimeover the furface of the waves mafles of rock are darted through the water with great violence end accumulate till they form new jllandfc vonreimes live crater of tie volcano nfefl out of the fea during anernptfonin r 7850 fubmarrne volcano bioke out near iceland which formed a new ihand it raged with great fury for feveral months the ifland afterwards funk leaving only a reef of rocks in december 1720 a violent earthquake was felt at tercera one of the azores the next morning a new iiland 9 miles in circumference was feen from the centre of which rofe a column of frnoke it afterwards funk to level with the iea a fmall ifland was formed in isi 1 by a fiibtnarmc volcano st c little dftance from st michaels one of the azores j it was a mafs of black rock defcobed by the captain of the sabrina fngate who uitnes fed its formation to be equal in height to the high tor at matlock a gentleman who vifited the azores in 1813 irfoims me thai it had funk down and disappeared there is now eighty fathom water in the place near santorini in the grecian archipe lago lubmarine volcanoes have repeatedly burft lorth during the laft two lhoufaudi years and formed feveral new iflandfs three ol the ancient eruptions are recotded by pliny straboj and seneca the laft eruption was in the year 1767 it the fea or large lakes have once covered our continents the greater part of the prcfent and ancient volcanoes were once ftibmarinc i am informed by mr ltckie that calcareous ftrata with organic remains rtit on beds of volcanic tufa on the wetlern iide of sicily nd decline towards the fea this indicates that the volcanic fires in the vicinity of iema once raged under the ocean almoll all the new volcanoes on record have broken out from under the fea some volcanoes in europe and many in the andes throw out aqueous torrents intermixed with mud and ftones j indeed the american volcanoes more frequently eject mud than lava eruptions of water from iecna and vefuvius are rare and iomc wuich have been defcribed as flowing from the crater of the former have been merely the torrents of melted water from fuow on its fummit the volcano of macaluba in sicily prefenta the phenomena of mud water and ftonc8 thrown out of the crater fenara defciibes an alarming eruption which took place ou the 29 h of september 1777 dreadful noiles were heard all round and from the midft of the plain in which wa formed a vaft gulf ai immente column df mud arofe to the height of about one hundred feet which abandoned by the impullive force a flu red the appearance of a large tree at the top in the middle ftoneofall kinds and fizea wtrc darted violently and vertical within auu vertical y viwuu the body of the column this terrible er- plofion tailed half an hour when it became quet but after a few minutes tefumed it courle and with thefe intermifliona con tinued all the day during the time of this phenomenon a pungent odour of fulphuretted hydrogen gafs was perceived at a great dillance to the furprifc of the inhabitants who did not dare to approach this fpot on accmint of the horrible no but many came the following day and found that the new great orifice had ejected feveral ftieamsof liquid chdkcreta which had covered with an afhy cruft of many feet all the furrounding fpace filling the cavities and chinks the hard lub- ftances ejefted were iragments of calcareous tufa of cryftallized gypfutn pebbles of quartz and iron pyrites which had loft their luflre and were bioken in pieces all thefe fubftances form the outward circuit at this day the unpleafant fir ell of fulphur ftill continued and the water which remained in the hdes was hot for many months while a keen fmell of burning iftued from the numerous orifices around the great gulf which is now com pletely filled in the azores there are no lefs than fortytwo aftive or dormant volcanoes almott all the iflands in the atlantic and many in the pacific ocean and the indian seas are volcanic a range of active and dormant volcanoes extendi from the fouth- ern extremity of america to the arftic w nnmrrwm voiixwies eccift u ilx- land and the hot fulphurous exhalations from craters in various parts of italy prove that their internal fires are not extinguish ed of the volcanoes in northern afra or the interior of africa we have little information and the volcanoes covered by the fea cannot be cftimaud but from the above ftatement we are authorized in believing that volcanic fires are more ex tenfively operative than many geologifts are difpofed to admit their fource is deeper under the furface of the earth and many cfycumfiances indicate that a con nexion exil between volcanoes at a vaft diftance from each other in 1783 when the fubmarine volcano near iceland fud- denly ceafed a volcano broke out two hundred miles dillant in the interior of the ifland and at the fame time the great earthquakes took place in calabria on the night in which lima and callao were deftroyed by an earthquake four new volcanoes broke out in the andes other inftances of the apparent connexion of earthquakes with diftant volcanoes have been before dated were the fource of volcanic fires near the furface the country in their vicinity would fink down and it is impoffible to conceive how the fame volcano could con tinue its eruptions inceflantly for more than two thoufand years which is the cafe with stromboli fituated in the lipari iflands fragmenrs of rocks- fuch as lime and gypfura are thrown out of volcanoes unchanged by lire which proves that the fource of heat was deep below the tangeof thefe rocks they have been merely driven up by the fubtcrranean esplofion which forced a paflage through them frooi the various phenomena which vol canoes prefent we may ivith probability infer that the internal part of our planet k chiles wholly or part all in an igneou