Niles' National Register, No.3 of Vol. VI, pages 35 - 48, printed in Washington City on March 16, 1839. An article on the last page reports: "The Boston Transcript states, that when the frigate Constitution was lately taken into the dry dock at Charlestown, her bottom was entirely encrusted with a coat of oysters from stem to stern, the avergae size of which was about equal to those that are usually sold for half a cent."
