Puzzles.
Portsmouth, Feb. 4, 1842.
Mr. Merry,—Sir: if you think the following worthy a place in your valuable magazine, by inserting the same you will oblige a CONSTANT READER.
I am a word of 18 letters.
- My 1, 12, 17, 13, 5, 18, is an article of ladies’ dress.
- My 18, 7, 6, 16, 5, is a number.
- My 6, 2, 15, has been the ruination of many.
- My 12, 3, 8, 12, 17, is a vegetable.
- My 11, 8, 10, 4, is an article of food.
- My 7, 12, 5, is much used by farmers.
- My 18, 6, 12, 14, 18, is a kind of fish.
- My 18, 8, 3, is a valuable ore.
- My 9, 8, 15, 5, is a foreign fruit.
- My whole is a great ornament to the country.
I am composed of 16 letters.
- My 2, 1, 8, is a portion of water.
- My 2, 12, 4, 15, 16, 8, has been the ruin of thousands.
- My 16, 1, 15, 10, 8, is the most contemptible of all animals.
- My 6, 14, 4, 15, is the name of a once celebrated tragedian.
- My 3, 8, 15, 15, is the name of a town not far from Boston.
- My 11, 12, 1, 15, 5, 9, is the name of a great country.
- My 3, 4, 6, 7, is a sheet of water.
- My 11, 13, 12, 9, is one of the elements.
- My 1, 13, 12, is another.
- My 11, 3, 8, is an insect.
- My 15, 13, 3, 7, is the name of a river justly celebrated in ancient and modern history.
C. B. F.
Boston, February 1, 1842.