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THE KRAKEN. 



contrary to an enlightened philosophy to reject, 

 spurious, the history of an animal, the existence 

 which is rendered so probable, by evidence deduc 

 from the prevailing belief of different tribes of mi 

 kind, whose opinions, it is evident, could not ha 

 been influenced or affected by the tradition of ea 

 other, but must have resulted from the occasioi 

 appearances of the monster itself in different qu 

 ters of the globe * 



THE 



