LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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A Mermaid. From a picture by Otto Sinding . . Frontispiece 



1. Noah, His Wife and Three Sons, as Fish-tailed Deities. 



Fro7}i a gem in the Florentine Gallery. After Calmet . . z 



2. Hea, or Noah, the God of the Flood. Khorsahad . . 3 



3. Dagon. From a bas-relief. Nituroiid ..... 4 



4. Dagon : Half Man, Half Fish. From Lamy''s ' Apparatus 



Biblicus '.......... 5 



5. Dagon. From an agate signet. Ninrveh ...... 



6. Fish Avatar of Vishnu. After Calmet and Maurice . . 6 



7. Atergatis, The Goddess of the Syrians. From a Phccnician 



Coin. .......... 8 



8. Venus Rising from the Sea, Supported by Tritons. 



After Calmet ......... 9 



9. Venus Drawn in Her Chariot by Tritons. Froin hvo 



Corinthian Coins ........ 10 



10. Ditto. . . . . . . . . . . .11 



11. Seal, Drawn as a Fish. From the Catacombs at Ro77ie . . „ 



12. Mermaid and Fishes of Amboyna. After Valentyn . . 17 



13. A Japanese Artificial Mermaid 27 



14. An Artificial Mermaid. Probably Japanese .... 28 



15. Portrait of a Mermaid said to have been Captured in 



Japan . . . . . . . . , .29 



16. The Dugong. From Sir y. Emerson Tennenfs 'Ceylon^ . . 43 



17. The Manatee -45 



18. Figure of a Calamary, From the Temple of Bayr-el- 



Bahree .......... 50 



19. Figure of an Octopus on a Gold Ornament found by 



Dr. Schliemann at Mycenae 51 



20. Ditto. ........... 52 



21. Ditto 53 



22. Ditto. ............ 



23. Hercules Slaying the Lernean Hydra .... 57 



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