COIL V. 
“ In the blue depth of the waters, 
Where the wave hath no strife, 
Where the wind is a stranger, 
And the Sea Snake hath life.” 
“They tell me that these serpents fling themselves in a wide circle 
round a boat, so that the men are surrounded on all sides; and that they 
will sometimes raise up their frightful heads and snap a man out of a 
boat.” Pontoppidan, p. 196, sec. 4. 
“They told me of a Sea-Serpent or Snake, that lay quoiled up like a 
cable upon a rock at Cape Ann.” 
From An Account of Tico Voyages to New England, Anno Dom. 
1638, by John Josselyn, Gent. 
I. 
There is a rock in the middle of ocean wild, 
all desolate, rough, and bare ; round it the 
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waves, in continual motion, burst on the shaggy 
sea-weed there. Sometimes the men of our mer¬ 
chant ships, sailing o’er the wondrous main, 
see it, and tell, with frightened lips, that on chart 
and atlas they’ve looked in vain to find it; but 
