114 THE VARIOUS ACCOUNTS, | [N°. 5.| 
Mission betreffend, Kopenhagen, 1741, so I cannot say anything 
about the text or figures, but the translation which I found. in 
the German edition of Pontoprrpan’s Natural History of Norway 
is correct. Not so the English translation entitled Journal of the 
Mission to Greenland, 2d. Vol. There we find, according to Mr. 
Lez who quotes the passage in his Sea-Mousters Unmasked, first 
sea-monster instead of sea-animal, further, that 7i¢ spouted water 
hike a whale, instead of it blew hke a whale. There is a great 
difference between these two expressions. A whale does not spout 
water as is generally believed and figured. Further, that the body 
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Fig. 19. — The Sea-Serpent, as seen by Hans Hgede, drawn by Bing. 
seemed to be covered with scales, instead of with a hard skin or 
crust, for the Danish shied or skiaell is singular, and not plural. 
