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the crew, I quite agree with Mr. Lun, as already said above, but 
as to the figure of the serpent itself, I am strongly convinced that 
Oxraus Maenvs or his draughtsman had no other intention than to 
delineate a large snake, and they gave it the large scales, mentioned 
in the text, but the scales are badly drawn. They further gave it 
a medial row of scales, as all snakes have such a medial row. 
Grsner in his Womenclator aquatilum animantium, 1560, gives 
two figures of the sea-serpent of which I give facsimiles in Fig. 15 
and 16. — Gusner says that there is a large map of Scandinavia 
in Onaus Maenus’ work, and on this map our fig. 15 is drawn 
in the Baltic Sea, and our fig. 16 im the Atlantic Ocean. In the 
original edition of 1555 there is but a small map of Scandinavia, 
which shows only the heads of several animals in the sea. I there- 
fore conclude that there still exists another edition of Maenvs’ 
work which I don’t know. Returning to our figures we immediately 
Fig. 15. — The sea-serpent illustrating the text of Gesner. 
observe that the drawer has delineated large snakes, the one without 
scales, and swimming with vertical undulations, the other with 
large scales, and that he did not intend to represent a dorsal fin 
by the medial line, but only a medial row of scales, unequal to 
the lateral. On the head three transversal rows of protuberances 
are visible, which evidently serve to represent the long hairs hang- 
ing down from the neck of the animal. 
Of the sea-serpent Gusnzr tells us: 
“In the Baltic or Swedish Ocean are found certain yellow sea- 
serpents of thirty or forty feet m length, which, when not pro- 
voked, do not harm any one. Of these sea-serpents Otaus Maenus 
gives the following figure in his Map of Scandinavia”. — (See our 
fig. 15). 
“On the same Map there is another sea-serpent, a hundred or 
two hundred feet long (as says the text, or three hundred, as 
