136 ANNALS OF THE SEA SERPENT. 



The bold adventurers (says the Salem Gazette) who 

 are fishing for the Sea-Monster at Cape- Ann, ought to be 

 furnished with the implements mentioned in the following 

 lines : 



"THE GIANT ANGLING." 



"His angle-rod made of a sturdy Oak, 

 His line a Cable that in storms ne'er broke ; 

 His hook he baited with a Dragon's tail, 

 And sat upon a rock and bobb'd for whale." 



Boston Centinel, Aug. 20, 1817. 



IMMENSE SEA SERPENT. 

 (A FISH STORY.) 



A species of Sea-Serpent was thrown on shore near 

 Bombay in 1819. It was about forty feet long, and must 

 have weighed many tons. A violent gale of wind threw it 

 high above the reach of ordinary tides, in which situation 

 it took nine months to rot ; during which process travel- 

 lers were obliged to change the direction of the road for 

 nearly a quarter of a mile, to avoid the offensive effluvia. 



It rotted so completely that not a vestige of bone re- 

 mained. (From 10,000 Wonderful things, by Edmund F. 

 King, London.) 



The Massachusetts Gazette, Sept. 26, 1784, says 

 "Captain Wyatt of the ship Whale writes to his friends in 

 London, that he has been within a few leagues of the 

 North Pole ; and that at the Pole there was a most dread- 

 ful eruption of nitre, which proved there was a volcano. 

 Crystallized substance, like glass fell near Capt. Wyatt, 

 which refracted the light ; by this he accounts for the 

 Aurora Borealis. 



