136 ANNALS OF THE SEA SERPENT. 



The bold adventurers (says the Salem Gazette) who 

 are fishing for the Sea-Monster at Cape-Ann, ought to be 

 furnished with the implements mentioned in the following 

 lines : — 



"THE GIANT ANGLING." 



"His angle-rod made of a sturdy Oak, 

 His line a Cable that in storms ne'er broke ; 

 His hook he baited with a Dragon's tail, 

 And sat upon a rock and bobb'd for whale." 



Boston Centinel, Aug. 20, 1817. 



IMMENSE SEA SERPENT. 



(a fish story.) 



A species of Sea-Serpent was thrown on shore near 

 Bombay in 1819. It was about forty feet long, and must 

 have weighed many tons. A violent gale of wind threw it 

 high above the reach of ordinary tides, in which situation 

 it took nine months to rot; during which process travel- 

 lers were obliged to change the direction of the road for 

 nearly a quarter of a mile, to avoid the offensive effluvia. 



It rotted so completely that not a vestige of bone re- 

 mained. (From 10,000 Wonderful things, by Edmund F. 

 King, London.) 



The Massachusetts Gazette, Sept. 26, 1784, says — 

 "Captain Wyatt of the ship Whale writes to his friends in 

 London, that he has been within a few leagues of the 

 North Pole ; and that at the Pole there was a most dread- 

 ful eruption of nitre, which proved there was a volcano. 

 Crystallized substance, like glass fell near Capt. Wyatt, 

 which refracted the light ; by this he accounts for the 

 Aurora Borealis. 



