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Large folio bifolium, text in 5 columns beneath the running head, previous folds, some spotting, and toning; good or better. Contains news from the General Assembly and the House of Representatives, an account of a beached whale discovered by two girls, a screed against "ardent spirits" deemed "morally wrong," death notices, ships' arrivals and departures, classified ads (some with cuts), poetry, and assorted tidbits and anecdotes. The Bristol Gazette was Bristol's third newspaper preceded by the Mount Hope Eagle and the Northern Star, both weeklies. The Gazette was also a weekly which in the following year morphed into the Bristol Gazette and Family Companion under W. H. S. Bayley, which in turn became the Bristol Phenix in 1837 - the same Bristol Phoenix that exists today.…