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News, Oct. 28, 1848, and in Mr. Ler’s Sea Monsters Unmasked, 
London, 1883. A reduced copy of it also appeared in the J//us- 
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Fig. 21. — The drawing of Bing, as reprinted and altered in the [llustrated London News of 1848. 
In the Danish work of Hans Herve Det gamle Groenlands nye 
Perlustration we read: “that it was seen at 64° lat. before the 
colony”. “Its body was as thick as the ship and three or four 
times longer’. Moreover the description of the animal is the same 
as in Pau Eaxrpn’s Continuation of the Journal. . 
In the German edition of this work, entitled Des alten Groen- 
lands neue Perlustration, Copenhagen, 1742, we read: “that it 
was seen before the Danish Colony, the Good Hope, that it had 
two broad flappers on the fore-part of the body”. 
In the Dutch edition, entitled: Beschryving van Oud Groenland, 
Delft, 1746, the translator did not allow himself so many liberties 
as the English and the German translators did, but was more 
correct in his expressions. 
In the French edition, entitled Description et histoire naturelle 
du Groenland, Copenhagen et Geneve, 1763, the translator allowed 
