A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > Sussex http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=642 Also visit our new sister site: http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=42316 Submitted by: Harrison H Howeth Article Title: Chester Daily Times Article Date: January 9 1880 Article Description: Mermaid Found on Sands Near Lewes, Delaware Article Text: Lewes, Del., January 9, 1880: On Tuesday of this week, Captain Raymond, keeper of Life-Saving Station #3 found on he beach what he supposed to be a mermaid which had been washed up from the sea. It was dead when it came on the beach and in a slight stage of putrefaction . Captain Raymond describes it as being about the size of an ordinary, six year old boy and to the waist or middle of the body resembeled a boy in every particular. He said that his face, head, neck, arms and bust as well as the hair was perfect in appearance to that of a human being. There were no fingers on the hands, but a course, moppy hair like the frizzled end of a whale bone. The lower portion of the body from the waist downward resembled that of a shark, the tail being covered with a hairy substance similar to that of the hands. The sea nymph has created great excitement in the vicinity of the station and many of the inhabitants thereabouts think the presence forebodes bad luck. Captain Fowler says that the "tarnal critter" came! there for no good and that it betokens a terrible shipwreck and fearfull loss of life which is soon to happen on that part of the coast. " Lewes Breakwater Light". ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com