[ 1653. | REPORTS AND PAPERS. LEI 
W. D. Prox in Mem. Amer. Acad. 1818, Vol. LV), 1764 and 
1768, repeats the tales of Oraus Maenus, and the figures of 
GESNER and ALDROVANDUS. — . 
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Mitton in his Paradise Lost, printed in 1667, comparing Satan 
with huge monsters, also mentions the sea-serpent of the Norwegians, 
calling it Leviathan (Book I, verse 192—208): 
“Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, 
With head up-lift above the wave, and eyes 
That sparkling blaz’d; his other parts besides 
Prone on the flood, extended long and large, 
Lay floating many a rood, in bulk as huge 
As whom the fables name of monstrous size 
Titanian, or Earth-born, that war’d on Jove, 
Briareus, or Typhon, whom the den 
By ancient Tarsus held; or that sea-beast 
Leviathan, which God of all his works 
Created hugest that swim th’ ocean stream: 
Him, haply slumb’ring on the Norway foam, 
The pilot of some small night founder’d skiff 
Deeming some island, off, as seamen tell, 
With fixed anchor in his scaly rind, 
Moors by his side under the lee, while night 
Invests the sea, and wished morn delays.” 
We observe that he mixes here also another story of a large 
sea-monster on which sea-men, believing it some island, will anchor, 
a story told about the Kraken and about the sperm-whales. 
CuaRLETON in 1668 quotes only ALDRovANDus and Onaus Mac- 
NUS, giving neither description nor figures. 
3. — 1687. — (Ramus, Norges Beskrivelse, quoted by Ponr- 
OPPIDAN. | 
“In the year 1687 a Great Sea-Serpent was seen several times 
by several persons in the Damsfjord, and once by eleven persons 
