Text: Anonymous, “[Notice of The Narrative of A. G. Pym],” Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT), vol. XI, no. 183, August 6, 1838, p. 2, col. 2

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THE NARRATIVE OF ARTHUR GORDON PYM, OF NANTUCKET. — A work of 290 pages, bearing the title, has just been issued from the press of the Messrs. Harpers. It comprises the details of a mutiny and atrocious butchery on board the American brig Grampus, on her way to the South Seas, in the month of June, 1827; with an account of the recapture of the vessel by the survivors; their shipwreck and subsequent horrible sufferings from famine; their deliverance by means of the British Schooner Jane Guy; the brief cruise of the latter vessel in the Atlantic Ocean; her capture and the massacre of her crew among a group of Islands in the 84th parallel of southern latitude; together with the incredible adventures and discovers still farther south to which that calamity gave rise. For sale in this city, by Belknap & Hamersley.