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CANARY ISLANDS 



sessed with their proper instincts and enjoyments. And 

 if we admit that 



" Full many a £fem of purest ray serene 

 The dark unfatliomed caves of ocean bear," 



we must allow from the analogy of reason, that innu- 

 merable clas.->es of animals inhabit this vast abyss, thous- 

 ands of which, never have appeared to the eye of man. 

 And yet, who is there that can doubt the existence of an 

 outre monster of the deep, when deduced from creditable 

 authority ? Who is there that has ever descended these 

 briny floods, and rambled about the '' mermaid's cells," 

 the " triton's halls," and the " sea-nymph's coral bowers," 

 to explore and enrol the wonders of the mighty deep? 

 According to Kircher, the celebrated diver, Pescecola, 

 whom the emperor Frederic II. employed to descend into 

 the Straits of Messina, saw there with horror, enormous 

 polypi attached to the rocks, the arms of which, being 

 several yards long, were sufficient to strangle a man. If 

 this can be credited, we have as much reason to believe in 

 the present existence of the sea-serpent, of the great levia- 

 than, or of the behemoth. 



Tuesday, July 23, 1833. 



