CURIOUS CREATURES. 



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Like them also, there were three of them ; but, unlike 

 them, they had such lovely voices, and were so beautiful, 

 that they lured seamen to their destruction, they having 

 no power to combat the allurements of the Sirens ; whilst 

 the Harpies emitted an infectious smell, and spoiled what- 

 ever they touched, with their filth, and excrements. 



Licetus, writing in 1634, and Zahn, in 1696, give the 

 accompanying picture of a monster born at Ravenna in 



