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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... 20 feet by the blocks , it would , when cut off , shrink to 5 or 6 feet . We took in the head , a frightful object , and are endeavouring to preserve it with salt . We have saved all the bones , which the men are not done clearing yet ...
... 20 feet by the blocks , it would , when cut off , shrink to 5 or 6 feet . We took in the head , a frightful object , and are endeavouring to preserve it with salt . We have saved all the bones , which the men are not done clearing yet ...
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... twenty five or thirty feet in length ; and being in a small boat he endeavoured to keep as respect- ful a distance as possible . There was , however , another boat in the harbour at the time , in which was Mr. Samuel Hingston , his ...
... twenty five or thirty feet in length ; and being in a small boat he endeavoured to keep as respect- ful a distance as possible . There was , however , another boat in the harbour at the time , in which was Mr. Samuel Hingston , his ...
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... feet , when it tapered much towards the head and the tail ; whereas the circumference of a large Basking shark , where thickest , is not less than twenty feet . Besides , the shark - like figure of the latter could scarcely be ...
... feet , when it tapered much towards the head and the tail ; whereas the circumference of a large Basking shark , where thickest , is not less than twenty feet . Besides , the shark - like figure of the latter could scarcely be ...
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... twenty inches . Consequently I conclude that : the largest Basking - shark that ever stranded on the coasts of Great Britain mea- sured upwards of sixty feet , viz . the so - called " Animal of Stronsa " . The putrified body of it was ...
... twenty inches . Consequently I conclude that : the largest Basking - shark that ever stranded on the coasts of Great Britain mea- sured upwards of sixty feet , viz . the so - called " Animal of Stronsa " . The putrified body of it was ...
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... feet . It had already been seen for some days , floating like a huge trunk ... feet and girth of 18 feet is normal in this species . Norwegian fishermen ... 20 feet in length , less than an inch in circumference , and of a dark brown ...
... feet . It had already been seen for some days , floating like a huge trunk ... feet and girth of 18 feet is normal in this species . Norwegian fishermen ... 20 feet in length , less than an inch in circumference , and of a dark brown ...
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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.