We hear from Leeds, that about midnight two fishermen belonging to Hull being employed near the Spurn, one of them (Samuel Sallies) having both his hands employed in drawing the net, caught the head of a soal, which endeavoured to escape through a mesh in the net, between his teeth (a practice very common amongst fishermen). The soal, making an effort, sprung into the man's throat, who being thereby rendered incapable of calling out to his companion; went towards him, and made him sensible, by signs, of his melancholy situation.
His comrade instantly laid hold of the fish's tail, but not being able to extract the body, the man was suffocated very soon after he reached the boat. The soal (the dimensions of which were eight inches and a half in length, by three and a quarter in breadth) was found with the head near the upper orifice of the stomach, the teeth being fastened into the substance of the oesophagus, and its tail inverted.
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