*9* NATURAL HISTORY of NO RW A T. 



before that the real apes differ from the creature called Quoyas- 

 Morrow, though there is in all a fimilitude of the human form) 

 I cannot fay for a certainty. However, I am apt to think there 

 is, and not without fonie probability. In regard to fize at leaft, 

 they remarkably differ every where, according to our fifhermen, 

 from the well-known fea animal called Marmale, or Marmsete : 

 This mail be defcribed hereafter, and might feem to be a dwarf in 

 this fpecies. That mentioned above, in the paffage quoted from 

 Mr. Angel, being three fathoms long, might, in the fame manner, 

 be called a giant among the reft. 



In the year 1624 a Mer-man, thirty-fix feet long, was taken in 

 the Adriatic Sea * according to Henry Seebald's Breviar Hiftor. to 

 this the lad -mentioned was but a dwarf. See p. 535. As to their 

 form, it is laid that fbme haye^ a fkin over their head like a 

 monk's hood, which perhaps ferves them for the lame purpofes; 

 as does the Ikinny hood, which a certain fort of Sea-calves have 

 on their heads, which, from thence, are called Klap-mutzer, as 

 has been obferved in the defcription of that creature. Olaus Mag- 

 nus Ipeaks, in Lib. xxi. cap. 1, of feveral monfters in the North 

 Sea, all which referable the human kind, with a monk's hood on 

 the head. His words are, < c Cucullati hominis forma." He adds, 

 that if any of this company be catch'd, a number of them let up 

 a howl, put themielves in violent agitations, and oblige thefiflier- 

 men to let the prifbner at liberty. But this laft article is a meer 

 romance, to which this too credulous author in this, as well as 

 fome other particulars, has given too much credit, without fuffi- 

 cient grounds. Of this Mer-man with a hood Rondeletius writes 

 thus, in Gefher. de Aquatilibus, Lib, iv. which I ought not to 

 omit. cc Inter marina monftia eft: 6c illiul, quod noftra setate in 

 Norvegia captum eft, mari procellofo. Id quotquot viderunt 

 ftatim Monachi nomen impofuerunt. Humana facie efle videba- 

 tur, fed mftica & agrefti, capite rafb & IxvL Humeros conte- 

 gebat veluti Monachorum noftrorum cucullus. Pinnas duas Ion- 

 gas pro brachiis habebat. Pars inflnia in caudam longam define- 

 bat. Media multo erat latior, fagi militaris figura* Hanc effi- 

 giem mihi dono dedit illuftriffima Margareta Navarre regina, &c. 

 Ea a viro nobili effigiem hanc acceperat, qui fimilem ad Carolum 

 V. imperatorem, in Hifpania tunc agentem, deferebat. Illse re- 

 gina affirmavit, le monftrum hoc in Norvegia captum vidifle, poft 

 graviffimas tempeftates undis &C fluclibus in littus ejeclum, lo- 

 cumque deilgnabat, die Zundt juxta oppidum den Ellepoch. Ejuf- 

 dem monftri picluram mihi oftendit Gifbertus medicus ex eadem 

 Norvegia Romam ad fe mifTam, quse piclura nonnihil a mea di£- 

 ' ferebat. 



