THE ROMANCE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



and white beneath, with the swimming paws white 

 on the upper surface, and isolated by the surround- 

 ing black of the upper parts,— a very remarkable 

 character. This could not have been the Tooth- 

 less Whale of Havre ; and there is no other with 

 which it can be confounded. Here, then, is a 

 whale of large size, occurring in great numbers 

 in the North Atlantic, which on no other occa- 

 sion has fallen under scientific observation' 



Are not these facts, then, sufficiently weighty to 

 restrain us from rejecting so great an amount of 

 testimony to the so-called sea-serpent, merely on 

 the ground that its dead remains have not come 

 under examination? 



In conclusion, I express my own confident per- 

 suasion, that there exists some oceanic animal of 

 immense proportions, which has not yet been re- 

 ceived into the category of scientific zoology ; and 

 my strong opinion, that it possesses close affini- 

 ties with the fossil Enaliosauria of the lias. 



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