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hanging down from its neck, its colour is dark, its eyes are bril- 
liant and flaming. It only appears in fine weather. : 
We consider its devouring hogs, lambs and calves, and its ap- 
pearance on summernights on land to take its prey to be a fable. 
The eating of squids, cuttles, crabs and lobsters may be a fiction, 
or it may have been truly witnessed, the animal chewing them 
with its head above water, as seals and sea-lions do. The story of 
snatching away a man from the ships is evidently confounded with 
another tale, as it is not mentioned anywhere else with regard to 
the sea-serpent. It evidently refers to gigantic calamaries which 
occasionally attack boats and snatch away one of the crew. (See 
Lez, Sea Monsters Unmasked, 1, The Kraken.). Its being covered 
with scales must be fictitious too, for they who saw a sea-serpent 
at a short distance, are unanimous in stating that it had no scales 
but a smooth skin. 
On the same page of the text, Ouaus Maenvs has figured a 
sea-serpent in the act of swallowing a man from a boat, which 
has just anchored on a rock, wherein the serpent has its hole. 
I give a facsimile of that figure in Fig. 14. — Mr. Henry Ler 
who mostly sees calamaries and no other animals in the tales and 
figures representing the Great Sea-Serpent, tells us that: “the 
presumed body of the serpent was one of the arms of the squid, 
and the two rows of suckers thereto belonging are indicated in the 
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