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- THE GREAT SEA-SERPENT.
- THE GREAT SEA-SERPENT.
- AN HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL TREATISE.
- WITH 82 ILLUSTRATIONS.
- PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR, OCTOBER 1892.
- PRINTED AT E. J. BRILL’S, AT LEIDEN.
- PREFACE.
- THE HAGUE,
- A. C. O. JZN.
- CONTENTS.
- Page
- Preface IX
- List of illustrations XIII
- I. Literature on the subject 1
- II. Attempts to discredit the Sea-Serpent, cheats and hoaxes 12
- III. Would-be Sea-Serpents 60
- V. The various explanations hitherto given 380
- Appendix 572
- Last word 592
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- I.
- 1830, April, May.--_Chronicle._
- 1848, Oct. 28.--The Great Sea-Serpent.--_The Illustrated London News._
- 1848, Nov. 4.--The fossil Sea-Serpent.--_The Illustrated London News._
- 1848, Nov. 25.--The Great Sea-Serpent.--_The Illustrated London News._
- 1849, Apr. 14.--The Great Sea-Serpent.--_The Illustrated London News._
- 1849, May, 19.--The Sea-Serpent.--_The Illustrated London News._
- 1850, Jan. 12.--The Sea-Serpent.--_The Illustrated London News._
- 1850, Jan. 19.--The Great Sea-Serpent. _The Illustrated London News._
- 1850, Sept. 7.--The Sea-Serpent again!--_The Illustrated London News._
- 1850, Sept. 14.--The Sea-Serpent.--_The Illustrated London News._
- 1855, Sept. 15.--The Great Serpent.--_The Illustrated London News._
- 1856, May 3.--Another Sea-Serpent.--_The Illustrated London News._
- 1856, Oct. 4.--The Sea-Serpent again. _The Illustrated London News._
- 1857, June 13.--The Great Sea-Serpent.--_The Illustrated London News._
- 1858, March 20.--Another Sea-Serpent.--_The Illustrated London News._
- 1860, Sept.--_Skibbereen Eagle._
- 1863, June 13.--The Great Sea-Serpent.--_The Illustrated London News._
- 1875, Nov. 20.--The Great Sea-Serpent.--_The Illustrated London News._
- 1875, Dec. 4.--_Illustrirte Zeitung._
- 1877, Jan. 27.--The Sea-Serpent.--_The Graphic._
- 1877, June 30.--The Sea-Serpent.--_The Graphic._
- 1879, April 19.--_The Graphic._
- 1879, July 19.--_The Graphic._
- 1881, Oct. 8.--_Le Monde Illustré._
- 1881, Nov. 17.--_De Zuid-Afrikaan._
- 1881, Nov. 26.--_Nieuws van den Dag._
- 1886, Sept. 25.--_The Graphic._
- 1889, June 6.--_Haagsche Courant._
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- I think Mr. CUMMINGS is right in this supposition.
- I.
- II.
- I am sorry I have not been able to get a look at Mr. BEACH’S figure.
- I have therefore chosen the above date.
- Prof. BENJAMIN SILLIMAN adds to it a
- * * * * *
- Fig. 32 = Fig. 33, seen with a telescope.]
- HORATIO THOMPSON.
- JOHN HENDERSON LANDELLS.
- OWEN BAKER.
- WM. LEWARN.
- OWEN BAKER.
- HORATIO THOMPSON.
- WILLIAM LEWARN.
- OWEN BAKER.
- OWEN BAKER.
- I am unable to follow out such a reasoning.
- V.
- I am obliged to make a few notes or obse
- I shall take the liberty to make some remarks on his paper.
- 1. A row of porpoises. (Rev. ALDEN BRADFORD, 1803).
- 3. A large tunny. (Prof. THOMAS SAY, 1818).
- 6. A fable, arisen from Northern Mythology. (Dr. PERCY, 1820?).
- 7. A basking shark, or a row of sharks. (Mr. SAMUEL L. MITCHILL, 1828).
- 11. Not a saurian. (Prof. BENJAMIN SILLIMAN, 1835).
- 12. A row of spermwhales. (Professor HERMANN SCHLEGEL, 1837).
- 13. A _Basilosaurus_. (Professor MATTHIAS JACOB SCHLEIDEN, 1847).
- 20. A mass of flying birds. (Mr. JOSEPH DREW, 1878).
- 21. A large sea-turtle. (Mr. ANDREW WILSON, 1879).
- 23. A manatee. (Mr. SEARLES VALENTINE WOOD JUN., 1880).
- VI.
- The Library of the Dutch Zoological Society at den Helder, and
- 106 B.--1840, June?--Near Boston?
- 1. EXTERNAL CHARACTERS.
- 2. INTERNAL OR ANATOMICAL CHARACTERS.
- 3. COLOURS, INDIVIDUAL VARIATIONS.
- 4. SEXUAL DIFFERENCES, MANE.
- 5. PHYSIOLOGICAL CHARACTERS.
- 6. PSYCHICAL CHARACTERS.
- 7. ENEMIES.
- 8. REPOSE, SLEEP, DEATH.
- 9. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION.
- 3. In the _Indian Ocean_.
- 4. In the _Pacific Ocean_.
- South of Japan 31° N. (151)
- South of Australia 43° S. (122)
- Gulf of Aden 12° N. (149)
- Geographe Bay 33° S. (150)
- Indian Ocean 2° N. (147)
- 10. NOMENCLATURE.
- C. Conclusions.
- 1. COMPARISON WITH ALLIED ANIMALS.
- 2. ITS RANK IN THE SYSTEM OF NATURE.
- APPENDIX.
- The following is the
- LAST WORD.
- In Mr. WARBURTON’S account (83) we read:--
- Dr. ANDREW WILSON mentions in his _Leisure Time Studies_, p. 101:--
- And Captain DREVAR wrote to the Editor of the Graphic (144):--
- Transcriber’s Notes
- Page 6 Essay on the physionomy Essay on the physiognomy
- Page 14 incerted it in his journal inserted it in his journal
- Page 37 has felt himself snubbled has felt himself snubbed
- Page 38 It has been voticed too It has been noticed too
- Page 41 in the galant archievement in the galant achievement
- Page 44 I abrubtly checked him I abruptly checked him
- Page 51 at Melbourne, were it was at Melbourne, where it was
- Page 152 take a view of distant objets take a view of distant objects
- Page 160 You directed as to return You directed us to return
- Page 165 I was on the beech I was on the beach
- Dit it appear to pursue Did it appear to pursue
- Page 170 Opening quote mark inserted before I supposed and do believe
- Page 187 used it flappers too used its flappers too
- Page 207 by the aide of my glass by the aid of my glass
- Page 212 just without the brakers just without the breakers
- Page 216 meaning it is a laugh on me meaning it as a laugh on me
- Page 234 of Bury Hall, Surry of Bury Hall, Surrey
- Page 237 make assurance doubtly sure make assurance doubly sure
- Page 256 a degree of cantious reserve a degree of cautious reserve
- Page 316 “In my many year’s wandering “In my many years’ wandering
- Page 360 the Ballarat Timbre Company the Ballarat Timber Company
- Page 376 round as a floar-barrel round as a flour-barrel
- Page 408 the integrety of not a few the integrity of not a few
- Page 413 the most entire sincerety the most entire sincerity
- Page 423 both crocodiles and turtoises both crocodiles and tortoises
- Arctic and Antartic Oceans Arctic and Antarctic Oceans
- Page 429 inhabitants of the Mississipi inhabitants of the Mississippi
- Manuel of Elementary Geology Manual of Elementary Geology
- Page 460 the quite waters of the Bay the quiet waters of the Bay
- Page 463 at it seems more plausible as it seems more plausible
- Page 471 against this suppositions against this supposition
- Page 474 He presents a frontispice He presents a frontispiece
- Page 475 propelled by yets of water propelled by jets of water
- Page 477 had not excess to had not access to
- Page 504 differring in age or sex. differing in age or sex
- Page 506 as round as a floar-barrel as round as a flour-barrel
- Page 527 an enormous splash or sprey an enormous splash or spray
- Page 533 Hithertho I have not found Hitherto I have not found
- Page 537 the Hudson-mouth, New Yersey the Hudson-mouth, New Jersey
- Page 543 Paragraph numbers 1, 2 and 3 1^o, 2^o and 3^o
- Page 568 expressed here too dicisively expressed here too decisively
- Page 576 Mr. Marston, of Swampsott Mr. Marston, of Swampscott