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the seattle post-intelligencer (seattle, wash. terr. [wash.]) 1888-1914 — sea serpent

Date of account: Newspaper page published 1899-12-11
Location: seattle, washington, united states
Source: Chronicling America paranormal and anomalous-report excerpts
Reference: the seattle post-intelligencer (seattle, wash. terr. [wash.]) 1888-1914 · 1899-12-11 · page 09
Rights: public_domain
Language: English OCR
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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A 1899-12-11 newspaper page contains wording relevant to “sea serpent”. This is historical reporting or commentary preserved by the Library of Congress; it is not treated as verification that the described event occurred.

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... basis of the majority of sea serpent storia* la the gigantic cuttle fish, observations of which have been hand ed down ;o us from the remotest tlmea, al though, strange to say, within the last cen tury even scientific men found It easier to accept sea serpent fable* a* true than ac curate detail* about huge cuttlefish. On June t, 1898, 1 published In Nature an ac count of a conflict between a sperm whale and an immense cuttlefish, being moved thereto by reading a translation of a paper read by tha prince of Monaco before the Aoadetnie des Scienee* at Parla on hi* dis covery of fragment* of a hug* cuttlefl*h ln the eject* ...

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