{"newspaper_name": "The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register.", "edition": "01", "page": "p2", "byline": ""}
Electric EeL.-Thc Editor of the Hart
ford Times, mentions the arrival in that city
ofa living Electric Eel, supposed to be the
first ever brought to the United States It
was conveyed thither by Capt, I.atimore,
from Surrinam; is about three feet in length
and resembles Lamprey Eel. 1t has but
one fin which runs nearly the whole length
of the body and serves for rudder. In or
der to try the effect of a shock on a fish, one
was put into the tub which contained the
Eel; on its coming in contact, it was thrown
np about two feet, and when it fell was per
fectly lfeless. The Editor of the Times,
while examining this singular animal, says
that he received three OF four severe shocks
on touching it.