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“As it happened, a circumstance took place which did not do much credit to the actors in it, but which served to fortify the unbelief of our southern brethern
Read record →is wonder, when it was found to be no other than a large horse macquerel, which (though a great natural curiosity, weighing sometimes 600 or 700 pounds) very much disappointed those, who had been induced to visit it
Read record →“This alleged monster of the deep first haunted the coast of Massachusetts, and frightened more particularly the neighbourhood of Gloucester with his presence
Read record →I discovered that my distinguished friend had visited Massachusetts for the express purpose of collecting all the testimony he could find concerning the sea-serpent
Read record →Long Island Sound put in a claim for a sea-serpent
Read record →It was about this period of these transactions that I received from Boston an ichthyological production, enclosed in a letter, respectfully written, and with postage paid, submitting to me whether that article was not a piece of a sea-serpent’s hide?
Read record →So much curiosity and excitement were now raised about the sea-serpent, that he was a prominent topic of conversation
Read record →In this fervor of opinion, it was supposed for a time that a sea-serpent existed in Lake Ontario
Read record →Lake Erie brought forward pretensions too for a sea-serpent
Read record →Now in the whole dissertation there is not one single proof of the non-existence of the sea-serpent
Read record →“Again a story about the sea-serpent will be found in American newspapers
Read record →“Sir,--Will you allow me to correct a statement that appeared in the last Number of your interesting publication?
Read record →10° 15′ E., wind dead north, upon the 20th of September, a most extraordinary animal had been seen: from his description it had the appearance of a huge serpent or snake, with a dragon’s head
Read record →OWEN attempted to confound this leviathan with the seals, on which he probably feeds, taking in whole shoals of them at a mouthful, and draining of the water with his seaserpentbone apparatus in the manner of a whale filling his stomach with medusae and shrimp
Read record →We were now within rifle shot of the animal, and, although some on board exhibited pardonable nervousness at the suggestion, it was resolved to fire a ball at the under portion of the body whenever the creature’s unwieldy evolutions would expose its vulnerable
Read record →Nor was I disappointed, the animal, lured no doubt by the dense masses of fish now off the coast, having remained within a comparatively short distance of the land
Read record →After lying on the surface for a few minutes, it suddenly dashed ahead with a velocity, as far as could be seen for a distance of two miles, of at least sixty miles an hour
Read record →l vessel has just been reported from my mast-head, and as she is apparently bound into some of the northern parts, I intend to speak her, purposely to acquaint, through your widely diffused journal, the people of the United States, of the fact of the existence
Read record →Double rows of fins are alternately placed along the belly
Read record →“It is impossible for any story to read more like a hoax than this, but I had ready means of procuring, through a friend at Lloyd’s, the information that there is such a ship as the “British Banner”, that she is commanded by Mr
Read record →“Captain Taylor’s Sea-Serpent.--A friend, who has the opportunity of communicating with Melbourne on the subject of the young sea-serpent which Captain Taylor says (Zool
Read record →P., of Whitehall, was sailing in Whitehall Harbour, he saw, following his wake, what appeared to him (from the many descriptions he had read of the monster) to be a sea-serpent about twenty five or thirty feet in length; and being in a small boat he endeavoure
Read record →COBBIN of Durban, forwards to the Natal Colonist the following account of a “sea-serpent” seen by him:--“During my last passage from London, I saw no less than three sea-serpents, but an account of the last will suffice
Read record →1720.--(See PONTOPPIDAN.) “THORLACK THORLACKSEN has told me that in 1720 a Sea-Serpent had been shut up a whole week in a little inlet, in which it came with high tide through a narrow entrance of seven or eight fathoms deep, and that eight days afterwards, wh
Read record →It may be that a real sea-serpent remained a week in the inlet
Read record →The skeleton of the holders corresponds with the legs in the drawing, the margin of the dorsal fin in a putrid state with the mane; so that the only errors are in the contortions towards the tail, the length of the fish and the number of the holders, which wer
Read record →Home (afterwards Sir Everard), in which he recklessly sets aside the evidence of the persons who saw and measured the animal in its most entire condition, as to its dimensions of length and thickness; and maintains that it was nothing but a Basking shark (Sela
Read record →“The cranium, which I also very carefully examined, was far too small for that of a Basking shark of even one-fourth the usual length of that species
Read record →I am convinced that this “sea-serpent” was a great calamary
Read record →“Some time ago the American newspapers were filled with the reports of a sea-serpent which showed itself in the neighbourhood
Read record →“A young sea-serpent.--On Friday, while some fishermen belonging to Usan were at the out-sea fishing, they drew up what appeared to them a young sea-serpent, and lost no time in bringing the young monster to the secretary of our Museum
Read record →The honest fishermen who drew the struggling monster to land are not, however, overscrupulous about the name, provided it be attractive enough to extract from the pockets of “ladies and gentlemen 6d.; working people 3d. each”: they therefore boldly announce hi
Read record →“The great Sea-Serpent caught at last, by fourteen fishermen, off Cullercoats, on Monday last, March 26, 1849
Read record →“The Sea-Serpent.--We observe in the Newcastle papers that a strange and hitherto unknown fish, nearly 13 feet in length, and possessing many of the characteristics which the captain of the Daedalus enumerated in his description of the great Sea-Snake, has rea
Read record →“I have lately received the following account from my brother, Capt
Read record →“Extract from an Officer’s Letter written between the Cape and Madras. You will be surprised to hear that we have actually seen the great sea-serpent, about which there has been so much discussion
Read record →1858, July 9.--Another Sea-Serpent.--(Zoologist, 1859, p
Read record →“A sea-serpent in the Bermudas.--I beg to send you the following account of a strange sea-monster captured on these shores, the animal being, in fact, no less than the great sea-serpent which was described as having been seen by Captain M’Quhae, of H
Read record →“A Baby Sea-Serpent.--From Van Diemen’s Land comes news of the capture of a queer fish
Read record →Having examined all the descriptions and figures of the Great Sea-Serpent published from 1500 A
Read record →On the same page of the text, OLAUS MAGNUS has figured a sea-serpent in the act of swallowing a man from a boat, which has just anchored on a rock, wherein the serpent has its hole
Read record →GESNER in his Nomenclator aquatilium animantium, 1560, gives two figures of the sea-serpent of which I give facsimiles in Fig
Read record →“On the same Map there is another sea-serpent, a hundred or two hundred feet long (as says the text, or three hundred, as states the number added to the figure), which sometimes appears near Norway in fine weather, and is dangerous to Sea-men, as it snatches a
Read record →On the map of Scandinavia subjoined to the work also occurs a figure of the sea-serpent, which we have copied in our fig
Read record →az’d; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood, in bulk as huge As whom the fables name of monstrous size Titanian, or Earth-born, that war’d on Jove, Briareus, or Typhon, whom the den By ancient Tarsus held
Read record →“THORLACK THORLACKSEN has told me that in 1720 a sea-serpent had been shut up a whole week in a little inlet, into which it came by high tide through a narrow entrance of seven or eight fathoms deep, and that eight days afterwards, when it had left the inlet,
Read record →It is evident that a true sea-serpent visited the little fjord daily during that week, most probably in its pursuit of fish, for the sea-serpent is sufficiently known to the Norwegians, and if it had been an animal different from the common Norwegian sea-serpe
Read record →Like all known air-breathing sea-animals of those dimensions the animal must of course have had under its skin a relatively thick layer of bacon, and I myself have often seen that the skin of sea-lions and seals wrinkled, when the animal bent its body in such
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