atP I 5 1328 
Fourth Edition. 
A 
ROMANCE 
OF 
THE SEA-SERPENT, 
OR 
THE ICHTHYOSAURUS. 
ALSO, 
A COLLECTION OF THE ANCIENT AND MODERN AUTHORITIES, 
WITH LETTERS FROM DISTINGUISHED MERCHANTS 
AND MEN OF SCIENCE. 
“If we have unearned luck 
Now to ’scape the serpent’s tongue, 
We wiU make amends ere long.” 
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act V., Sc. 2. 
“ But chain ten thousand fathoms down 
The sluggish calm below.” 
J. T. Fields. 
By EUGENE BATCHELDER. 
' 
CAMBRIDGE: 
PUBLISHED BY JOHN BARTLETT. 
1850 . 
dL, 
