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ulor, \\illi :i fringe round it, it linn- doun MII both 

 :i ;i table, lalliii'j. l;i. 



; with white, the crowns and mant l< behold : 



li:nl not one bone about him. nor \\\\* D 



hut had a snmnili >kin like a man's lu-ll\. 1 D b\ 



the lap]) its of the mantle ; tin- little head it conhl darl forth a 

 van I iVom t he ureat, ami draw it in again at pleasure, being like a 



hawk's beak, and having in t he little head two tongue-, by which. 



; hoinj,'ht. it received all its nourishment : when it wa^ dead 



and opened, the liver wa yed t hirt y pounds. The man that, took 



me to rlomnel the fourth of this instant I >ecember, wit h two 



lie horns in a hum liox with the little head, and the figure l 



the lish drawn on a [tainted cloth, which was the full proportion 



. and he went up to Dublin, with an intent to shew it to the 



Kurd Lieutenant." 



The advent <>!' this animal is thus described in a letter from 

 Thonia^ llooke (Hubliii) to Mr. John Wiekins i London). I>e- 

 cember i:Jl. 1673: 



Tliat in the month of October lat, I think nliout the L')th 

 lay. lu- was alone riding by t he sc-aside. at Dinghi-r-cosh, and 

 >aw a ureat tiling in the sea. -which drew his eye towards it. and 

 me just to him: when he discerned the horns, it be^an to 

 frightfully; he said he was sometimes afraid to look on it. 

 and when he durst look on if, it was the most splendid si^ht. that 

 In- ever saw: the Horns were -><> bespangled with those Crowns, 

 as In- calls them : they shewed, he saith, like IVarls or precious 

 es; tin- Horns it could move and weild about the Head a> a 

 i doth, all the ten : the two lon^ ones it mostly bore for- 

 ward-, tiie other ei^ht mov'd too and fro every way ; when it 

 came to shore its fore [.art- rested on the shore, and there lay ; 

 He got help after awhile, and when IK- saw it stirred not to fright 

 ;id put them about the hinder parts, and 

 MI to draw it on >hore. and saw it stirred not to hurt them. 

 A- bold, and went to pull with their hands on the Horn-. 

 I ii it the-e < 'rown- -< bit 1 hem. that they were foiv< d t<> .jiiit their 

 hold : li ih under every one of them, and had a 



o fasten on anything thai touched them; they nm\ ( -.l the 

 Horn-, with handspikes, and so bcin- evening they left it on the 



me in the mornin- and found it d. 

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