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Lord direct you with all our Dear loves to you and all friends, concludes 

 him that is your very affectionate loving' Father. 



"THOMAS CLEAB." 



" The Monster Described. 



"This Monster was taken at Dingle-I-cosh in the county of Kerry, 

 being driven up by a great storm in the Month of October last 1673 ; 

 having two heads, one great head (out of which sprung a little head 

 two foot, or a yard from the great head) with two great eyes, each as 

 big as a pewter dish, the length of it being about nineteen foot, bigger 

 in the body than any horse, of the shape represented by this figure, 

 having upon the great head ten horns, some of six some of eight or ten, 

 one of eleven foot long, the biggest horns as big as a man's Leg, the 

 least as his wrist, which horns it threw from it on both sides; And to it 

 again to defend it self having two of the ten horns plain, and smooth 

 that were the biggest and middle horns, the other eight had one hundred 

 Crowns a peece, placed by two and two on each of them, in all 800 

 crowns, each Crown having teeth, that tore any thing that touched 

 them, by shutting together the sharp teeth, being like the wheels of a 

 wateh, The Crowns were as big as a man's thumb or something bigger, 

 that a man might put his finger in the hollow part of them, and had in 

 them something like a pearl or eye in the middle ; over this Monster's 

 back was a mantle of a bright Bed Colour, with a fringe round it, it 

 hung down on both sides like a Carpet on a table, falling back on each 

 side, and faced with white ; the crowns and mantle were glorious to 

 behold : This monster had not one bone about him, nor fins nor scales, 

 or feet, but had a smooth skin like a man's belly. It swoom by the 

 lappits of the mantle ; The little head it could dart forth a yard from 

 the great, and draw it in again at plesure, being like a hawk's beak 

 and having in the little head two tongues by which it is thought it 

 received all its nourishment; when it was dead and opened the liver 

 waved 30 pounds. The man that took it came to Clonmel the 4th of 

 this instant December, with two of the horns in a long box with the 

 little head, and the figure of the fish drawn on a painted-cloth, which 

 was the full proportion of it, and he went up to Dublin, with an intent 

 to shew it to the Lord Lieutenant." 



" Letter No. 1, manuscript. 



"In a Letter from a very Sober person in Dublin dated 27th of 

 December 1673. 



"Yesterday I went to See part of the Sea Monster, which was taken 

 at Dingle, viz. the two Bigg Homes and the little head, the Homes are 

 neare foure foot long, and about six inches thick towards the Boot, and 

 full of little Coronetts about the Compass of a groat, and teeth in every 

 one of them, they were fixt to the Horne, with a string like a Yeine, by 

 which I conceive they received ISTourishment, rather then that the nour- 



