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P. Parker, I think, and one or more persons beside, 
who had spent a part of that morning in witnessing 
its movements. In addition, Col. Harris, the com¬ 
mander at Fort Independence, told me that the crea¬ 
ture had been seen by a number of his soldiers while 
standing sentry in the early dawn, some time before 
this show at Nahant; and Col. Harris believed it as 
firmly as though the creature were drawn up before 
us in State Street, where we then were. 
“ I again say, I have never, from that day to this, 
had a doubt of the Sea-Serpent's existence. The re¬ 
vival of the stories will bring out many facts that 
will place the matter before our people in such a 
light as will make them as much ashamed to doubt, 
as they formerly were to believe in its existence. 
46 Yours truly, 
“ Amos Lawrence.” 
Before giving any more letters or facts on this 
subject, I wish to introduce one or two passages from 
the Bible, where the word leviathan occurs, about 
which theologians and naturalists have had so many 
warm discussions. I shall therefore begin with the 
Book of Job ; for, says Bishop Lowth, “ that the 
Book of Job is the most ancient of all the sacred 
books is, I think, manifest by the subject, the lan¬ 
guage, the general character, and even from the 
obscurity of the work. It savours altogether of the 
antique, insomuch that whosoever would suppose it 
written after the Babylonish captivity would fall lit¬ 
tle short of the error of Hardoiun, who ascribed the 
golden verses of Virgil and Horace to the iron age 
of monkish pedantry and superstition.” Dr. Hale 
supposed Job to have lived about the year 2130, B.C. 
Job, therefore, being the first one of the inspired writ¬ 
ers that mentions the leviathan, I shall commence 
with him, and give afterwards the other passages 
where the leviathan is noticed in the Old Testament. 
