The Great Sea SerpentCosimo, Inc., 2007 M08 1 - 444 páginas Mysterious and strange are the ocean depths, but pioneering cyptozoologist ANTOON CORNELIS OUDEMANS (1858-1943) attempted to bring some order to the realm with this 1892 survey of the reports of monsters of the sea, the first of its kind. Gathering sightings from around the globe and across the centuries, Oudemans eliminates the obvious hoaxes or honest mistakes and then, from dozens of legitimate sighting, draws conclusions about sea-serpent physiology, geographic distribution, and more. This astonishing book "still influences thoughts and theories about the great unknowns in the oceans," says cryptozoologist Loren Coleman in his new introduction in this edition, part of Cosimo's Loren Coleman Presents series. |
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... dark lower room of a store where we found a considerable number of other gentlemen waiting . After some delay the fish was dragged in from the small vessel in which it had been brought , wrapped in sail . As soon as it was uncovered and ...
... dark lower room of a store where we found a considerable number of other gentlemen waiting . After some delay the fish was dragged in from the small vessel in which it had been brought , wrapped in sail . As soon as it was uncovered and ...
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... dark mahogany , nearly black . This account is very imperfect , and does not even notice if it had scales ; therefore it must remain doubtful whether it was a snake or a fish . I am inclined to believe it was a fish , until otherwise ...
... dark mahogany , nearly black . This account is very imperfect , and does not even notice if it had scales ; therefore it must remain doubtful whether it was a snake or a fish . I am inclined to believe it was a fish , until otherwise ...
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... dark spots . On examining the skin we found , to our surprise , that the body was covered with blubber , like that of a whale , but it was only four inches thick . The oil was clear as water , and burnt nearly as fast as spirits of ...
... dark spots . On examining the skin we found , to our surprise , that the body was covered with blubber , like that of a whale , but it was only four inches thick . The oil was clear as water , and burnt nearly as fast as spirits of ...
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... dark hollow , like a nostril is visible there ; the lower jaw , more pointed , shows below hollow and convex outlines , like sacs , doubtless for the act of swallowing . The teeth are sharp , enormous , and white . From the throat ...
... dark hollow , like a nostril is visible there ; the lower jaw , more pointed , shows below hollow and convex outlines , like sacs , doubtless for the act of swallowing . The teeth are sharp , enormous , and white . From the throat ...
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... dark , while they continued wet . And all this he declares to be truth , & c . " ( Signed ) " " Thomas Fotheringhame . " " Kirkwall , Nov. 19 , 1808. " " Compeared John Peace , tenant in Dounatoun in Rothiesholm ; and being interrogated ...
... dark , while they continued wet . And all this he declares to be truth , & c . " ( Signed ) " " Thomas Fotheringhame . " " Kirkwall , Nov. 19 , 1808. " " Compeared John Peace , tenant in Dounatoun in Rothiesholm ; and being interrogated ...
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The Great Sea-serpent: An Historical and Critical Treatise Anthonie Cornelis Oudemans Sin vista previa disponible - 2007 |
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Página 96 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him haply slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind, Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Página 96 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Página 218 - Thus Satan talking to his nearest mate With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood ; in bulk as huge As whom the fables name of monstrous size, Titanian, or Earth-born, that warr'd on Jove ; Briareos or Typhon, whom the den By ancient Tarsus held ; or that seabeast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream...
Página 210 - I have the honour to acquaint you, for the information of my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that at 5 o'clock PM on the 6th of August last, in latitude 24° 44...
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Página 221 - I had never seen his account, or even heard of his sea-serpent, until my arrival in London. Some other solution must therefore be found for the very remarkable coincidence between us in that particular, in order to unravel the mystery. " Finally, I deny the existence of excitement or the possibility of optical illusion. I adhere to the statements, as to form, colour, and dimensions, contained in my official report to the Admiralty, and I leave them as data whereupon the learned and scientific may...
Página 252 - S., long. 35° W., we observed three large sperm - whales, and one of them was gripped round the body with two turns of what appeared to be a huge serpent. The head and tail appeared to have a length beyond the coils of about thirty feet, and its girth eight or nine feet.