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tions seeing icebergs on the sea, with foxes dnd devils 
on them. Rather a cold place for devils; but perhaps they 
were of the Scandinavian breed. He might have seen seals, 
and taken them for something else. Such a story is mere 
nonsense,— a traveller's tale, fit only for romances. 
Note 7. (Page 49.) 
Job, xli. 9, 10 : — 44 Behold, the hope of him is in vain : 
shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him ? None 
is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand 
before me?” 
Note 8. (Page 49.) 
u These Ormens of the Soe” Or, u these snakes of the 
sea ” ; u the Soe Orrnen ” ; 44 the Sea-Snake.” 
The Linnaean Society of New England received the fol¬ 
lowing testimony in the year 1817, with regard to these ser¬ 
pents leaping into vessels, from a resident of one of the islands 
in the Bay of Penobscot, Maine, who declared that he had 
often seen a marine monster of this description, which was 
as large as a sloop’s boom, and about sixty or seventy feet long. 
He asserted, that, about the year 1780, as a schooner was lying 
at the mouth of the river, or in the bay, one of these enor¬ 
mous creatures leaped over it between the masts : the men 
ran into the hold for fright, and the weight of the serpent sunk 
the vessel, which was of eighteen tons burthen, “one streak,” 
or plank. Now it is a singular fact, that the Spanish sailors, 
and perhaps the Spanish naturalists, as early as the year 
1617, just two hundred years before the Linnaean Society 
of New England received this statement, and three years be¬ 
fore the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, were aware of the fact 
that there were sea-serpents on the coast of Norway; and it 
would seem that they were aware that they sometimes came 
on board vessels in rather an unceremonious manner. At all 
events, Cervantes, who has amused us so often with the 
