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Sea Monsters Unmasked: A Critical Study of Sea Monsters Throughout History, Illustrated (Classic Reprint)
Sea Monsters Unmasked A Critical Study of Sea Monsters Throughout History Illustrated - Classic Reprint Author:Henry Lee SEA MONSTERS UNMASKED. THE KRAKEN. In the legends and traditions of northern nations, stories of the existence of a marine animal of such enormous size that it more resembled an island than an organised being frequently found a place. It is thus described in an ancient manuscript (about A.D. ll8o), attributed to the Norwegian King Svcrre; and th... more »e belief in it has been alluded to by other Scandinavian writers from an early period to the present day. It was an obscure and mysterious sea-monster, known as the Kraken, whose form and nature were imperfectly understood, and it was peculiarly the object of popular wonder and superstitious dread. Eric Pontoppidan, the younger, Bishop of Bergen, and member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Copenhagen, is generally, but unjustly, regarded as the inventor of the semi-fabulous Kraken, and is constantly misquoted by authors who have never read his work,* and who, one after another, have copied from their predecessors erroneous statements conce
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; Frontispiece-The Sea Serpent as first seen from HMS Dadalus; FIG PACS; 1 Beak and Arms of a Decapod Cuttle 16; 2 The Octopus {Octopus vulgaris) 18; 3 The Cuttle (Sepia officinalis) 21; 4 Hooked Tentacles of Otiychoteuthis 23; 5 Japanese fisherman attacked by a Cuttle 29; 6 Arms of a great Cuttle exhibited in a Japanese fish-shop 29; 7 Facsimile of De Montfort's "Poi/lpe colossal" 32; 8 Gigantic Calamary caught by the French despatch vessel; A lectori, near TcncrifFc 39; 9 Tentacle of a great Calamary (Architeuthis prtriceps) taken; in Conception Bay, Newfoundland 43; 10 Head and Tentacles of a great Calamary (Architeuthis; pr triceps) taken in Logic Bay, Newfoundland 44; 11 Jonah and the Sea Monster 55; 12 Sea Serpent seizing a man on board ship > 58; t3- Gigantic Lobster dragging a man from a ship 58; 14 Pontoppidan's " Sea Serpent" 63; 15 The Animal drawn by Mr Bing as having been seen« less