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CURIOUS CREATURES. 



weight cast upon the Fore or Hinder-Deck, he sinks, and 

 drowns a ship. 



" Sometimes, not content to do hurt by water onely, 

 as I said, he will cruelly over throw the ship like any 

 small Vessel, striking it with his back, or tail. He hath 

 a thick black Skin, all his body over ; long fins, like to 

 broad feet, and a forked tail 15 or 20 foot broad, 

 wherewith he forcibly binds any parts of the ship, he 

 twists it about. A Trumpet of War is the fit remedy 



against him, by 

 reason of the 

 sharp noise, 

 which he can- 

 not endure : 

 and by casting 

 out huge great 

 Vessels, that 

 hinders this 

 Monster's pas- 

 sage, or for 

 him to play 



y*in 



and Guns, with 



the sound thereof he is more frighted, than with a Stone, 

 or Iron Bullett ; because this Ball loscth its force, being 

 hindered by his Fat, or by the Water, or wounds but a 

 little, his most vast body, that hath a Rampart of mighty 

 Fat to defend it. Also, I must add, that on the Coasts 

 of Norway, most frequently both Old and New Monsters 

 are seen, chiefly by reason of the inscrutable depth of the 

 Waters. Moreover, in the deep Sea, there are many kinds 

 of fishes that are seldome or never seen by Man." 



