120 THE VARIOUS ACCOUNTS, [Nee 
only fact we cannot derive with certainty from Eexpr’s account. 
Ponropripan relating EcxEpr’s observation of the monster gives 
a copy of Mr. Brne’s figure, but as often occurred in those days, 
it is not copied with great accuracy, and Bine’s drawing has been 
altered by Ponropripan so as to give quite another figure. (Our 
fig. 22 is a facsimile of that of the German edition.) Mr. Bine 
was right in figuring the vaporous breath of the animal, and 
PontorripaN changes it wrongly into a waterspout of more than 
100 feet long! Ponroppipan is convinced, when seeing Bine’s 
figure, that there are several species of sea-serpents, all belonging 
to the same genus. | do not wish to discuss this point. 
Still more exaggerated is the figure of Jarpinz’s Naturalist’s 
Fig. 23. — Bing’s drawing as altered in Dr. Hamilton’s work. 
Library, or rather that which Dr. R. Hamiron presents to his 
readers. He makes of it a serpentine dragon which has also the 
power of spouting a splendid set of water some twenty feet high, 
a water-mass equalling nearly half the volume of the animal’s body! 
In his Lssay towards a Natural History of Serpents, 1742, 
Mr. Owen repeats only (p. 14, and p. 143) the tales and reports 
of Oraus Maenus and GEsnER. 
