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lakes, by laying itself round them in a circle, and that the ship 
then is turned upside down. It sometimes makes such large coils 
above the water, that a ship can go through one of them. I give 
the figure as it is on the Map.” — (See our fig. 16.) 
Here we meet with three other characteristics of the sea-serpent: 
it is harmless when not provoked, it encircles ships and turns 
them upside down, and its coils are so gigantic that a ship can 
go through one of them. The first characteristic is a real one: the 
sea-serpent is perfectly harmless, if not provoked. We observe this 
in almost every account. The other two are of course extraordinary 
exaggerations of its dimensions. 
The two figures of GEsNER copied on a reduced scale, with an 
extract of his text, appeared in the Graphic of January 29, 1876. 
The text in the edition of 
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at Basle in 1567 is the same 
as that of the first edition 
printed in 1555 at Rome, 
but the figure between the 
text differs, and is doubtless 
a combination of our figg. 
14 and 16, in miniature; 
see our fig. 17. 
On the map of Scandinavia 
subjoined to the work also 
occurs a figure of the sea- 
serpent, which we have copied 
in our fig. 18. — This figure 
does not claim our attention ; 
it represents an eel or a 
snake, it has no scales. — 
Not so fig. 17: it distinctly 
shows dorsal scales and vent- 
ral plates, just as snakes 
have. This seems to me a 
confirmation of my opinion 
that in all these figures the 
drawers had no other inten- Fig. 18.— The sea-serpent, illustrating the 
1 . Map of Scandinavia in the Basle editi 
tion than to delineate a large ‘ Magis’ Woe. a 
Fig. 17. — The sea-serpent as represented in the 
Basle edition of Olaus Magnus’ work. 
