Mythical Monsters

Charles Gould, geological surveyor of Tasmania, spent 400 pages and 93 engravings arguing that dragons, sea-serpents and unicorns are not inventions but memories — real animals, seen, feared, and distorted by time.

The Sea-Serpent

39 pages in this part of Mythical Monsters.

The Sea-Serpent

On the dark bottom of the great salt lake Imprisoned lay the giant snake, With naught his sullen sleep to break.

The Sea-Serpent: Norway

The coast of Norway, deeply indented by fjords, the channels of which, for a certain breadth, have a depth equal to that of the sea…

The Sea-Serpent: Pontoppidan

According to Pontoppidan, these creatures continually keep at the bottom of the sea, excepting in the months of July and August, which is…

The Sea-Serpent: Olaus

Olaus Magnus, in his Histor. Septentrion, chap. xxvii., writing not from personal observation but from the relations of others, speaks of…

The Sea-Serpent: Egede

Hans (afterwards Bishop) Egede, in his Full and Particular Relation of my Voyage to Greenland, as a Missionary, in the year 1734, figures…

The Sea-Serpent: Norwegian

Lawrance de Ferry, a captain in the Norwegian Navy, and commander in Bergen in Pontoppidan's time, actually wounded one of the Norwegian…

The Sea-Serpent: Capell

Captain (afterwards Sir Arthur) de Capell Brooke* collected all accounts he could, during his journey to the North Cape, respecting the…

The Sea-Serpent: Otersoen

At Otersoen, the Postmaster, Captain Schielderup, who had formerly been in the Norwegian sea service, and seemed a quick intelligent man…

The Sea-Serpent: Zoologist

Not having the Zoologist at hand, I now quote a resumé of short notices extracted from it, contained in the Illustrated London News for…

The Sea-Serpent: Lund

For further information on the Norwegian sea-serpent, I am indebted to the excellent chapter, devoted to the question generally, contained…

The Sea-Serpent: Wernerian

In 1809, Mr. McLean, the parish minister of Eigg, communicated to Dr. Neil, the Secretary of the Wernerian Society, the following statement…

The Sea-Serpent: Lochourn

At one time F. and K. and G. B. saw a fin sticking up at a little distance back from the head, but neither of us were then observing. On…

The Sea-Serpent: Sound

A lady at Duisdale, in Skye, a place overlooking the part of the Sound which is opposite the opening of Lochourn, said that she was looking…

The Sea-Serpent: Coast

In the summer of 1871, some large creature was seen for some time rushing about in Lochduich, but it did not show itself sufficiently for…

The Sea-Serpent: Shetland

It must also be mentioned that Dr. Hibbert* states that the sea-serpent has been seen in the Shetland seas, and instances one seen off the…

The Sea-Serpent: Nahant

Dr. Hamilton* states that an animal of similar appearance was again seen, in August 1819, off Nahant, Boston, and remained in the…

The Sea-Serpent: Daphne

SIR,-I have just reached this port, on a voyage from Malta to Lisbon, and my attention having been called to a report relative to an animal…

The Sea-Serpent: Dædalus

From the description given by the mate, the brute must have been nearly a hundred feet long, and his account of it agrees in every respect…

The Sea-Serpent: M'Quhe

A I see, in your paper of the 30th of December, a paragraph in which a doubt is expressed of the authenticity of the account given by…

The Sea-Serpent: Steele

Again, Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Steele, of the Coldstream Guards, wrote to the Zoologist: "I have lately received the following account…

The Sea-Serpent: Lynn

A writer in the New York Sun (I have the clipping, but, unfortunately, not the date), discussing the best authenticated stories, says: "The…

The Sea-Serpent: Sept

The News of the World, Sept. 28, 1879, states that Captain J. F. Cox, master of the British ship Privateer, which arrived at Delaware…

The Sea-Serpent: Australian

The Singapore Daily News, April 6, 1878, in its Australian *news quotes from Wellington (New Zealand), Feb. 26 (this month corresponds with…

The Sea-Serpent: Graphic

The Graphic of April 19th, 1879, contains a drawing of " a marine monster seen from S.S. City of Baltimore, in the Gulf of Aden, January…

The Sea-Serpent: Anderson

When in Singapore, in 1880, I received the personal testimony of Captain Anderson, at that time chief officer of the Pluto (property of the…

The Sea-Serpent: Chinamen

Mr. J. H. Hoar, of the pilot station, Shanghai, China, informed me that he saw a sea-serpent some years previously, when he was stationed…

The Sea-Serpent: Chinese

He learned that it was the third occasion of its being seen in that place within eight years. An account was published in one of the local…

The Sea-Serpent: Smith

Dr. F. Porter Smith† states that there can be no doubt that the costly, odorous, light yellow, gummy substance, found floating on the sea…

The Sea-Serpent: Nestor

JOHN W. WEBSTER, Commander, S.S. Nestor.

The Sea-Serpent: Pauline

The Barque "Pauline" Sea-serpent.

The Sea-Serpent: George

GEORGE DREVAR, Master of the Pauline.

The Sea-Serpent: Davidson

FIG. 75.--SEA-SERPENT ATTACKING WHALE. (From Sketches by Capt. Davidson, S.S. " Kiushiu-maru.") whale was trying to escape, as he spouted…

The Sea-Serpent: Drevar

Captain Drevar follows Pontoppidan (probably unwittingly) in identifying the sea-serpent with the leviathan of Scripture, quoting Isaiah…

The Sea-Serpent: Philomel

For example, in November 1879, an illustration was given in the Graphic of "another marine monster," professing to be a sketch in the Gulf…

The Sea-Serpent: Daheim

Strangely enough, a proximate counterpart of this fish, but of mimic size, was made known to science in 1882. My attention was called by…

The Sea-Serpent: Leguat

When our purveyors came we related to them what had happened to us, and showed them the eel's head, but they only said they had never seen…

The Sea-Serpent: Gosse

Mr. Z. Newman was the first scientific man to absolutely affirm his belief in its existence, and to indicate its probable zoological…

The Sea-Serpent: Newman

The creature seen in the Straits of Malacca, and one quoted by Mr. Newman, in the Zoologist, exhibit characters which confirm Egede's…

The Sea-Serpent: Burmah

It is with great pleasure that I add the following testimony of a belief in the existence of the sea-serpent, from a country which has not…

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