The Sea-Serpent
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…