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NOTES. 
“ No 1 needy adventurer,’ no 1 exile ’ am I, 
By laws or by poverty sentenced to fly ) 
But if you should tell 
That Boney has taken my shape and my size, 
And made his escape in a serpent's disguise, 
• ’ T would be as correct as most of your lies, 
And frighten as well. 
u You ’re jealous, I find, of the honor I give, 
Within Cape Ann harbour my herrings to drive ; — 
You want them, I see. 
And if they are 1 fishermen ’ still, you will find 
On that island of rocks there’s a charm undefined. 
The natives are friendly, free-hearted, and kind, 
Though cruel to me. 
u Perhaps I’m the snake, by my being so large, 
That was chained to the oars of Crowninshield's barge ; 
Or should you declare 
That fair Cleopatra was wounded by me, 
To such classical fame I soon should agree ; 
So strangely I’ve altered, I hardly can see 
What likeness I bear. 
u Your questions I’ve answered ; — and now, if you please, 
I ’ll finish the tour I began o’er the seas, 
In hopes I should see 
A favorite child that I lost t’other day, 
Which was shamefully murdered at Bleak Sandy Bay, 
And now Captain Beach has obtained it, they say, 
As a likeness of me. 
“ The Cape Ann Monster. 
“ Gloucester , Oct. 1,1817.” 
Note 4. (Page 27.) 
The best account we have of the great serpent of Midgard 
is in a work entitled u The Edda, or Ancient Icelandic (or 
Runic) Mythology.” This book is perhaps as old as the Book 
