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CURIOUS CREATURES.
weight cast upon the Fore or Hinder-Deck, he sinks, and
drowns a ship.
" Sometimes, not content to do hurt by water onely,
as I said, he will cruelly over throw the ship like any
small Vessel, striking it with his back, or tail. He hath
a thick black Skin, all his body over ; long fins, like to
broad feet, and a forked tail 15 or 20 foot broad,
wherewith he forcibly binds any parts of the ship, he
twists it about. A Trumpet of War is the fit remedy
against him, by
reason of the
sharp noise,
which he can-
not endure :
and by casting
out huge great
Vessels, that
hinders this
Monster's pas-
sage, or for
him to play
y*in
and Guns, with
the sound thereof he is more frighted, than with a Stone,
or Iron Bullett ; because this Ball loscth its force, being
hindered by his Fat, or by the Water, or wounds but a
little, his most vast body, that hath a Rampart of mighty
Fat to defend it. Also, I must add, that on the Coasts
of Norway, most frequently both Old and New Monsters
are seen, chiefly by reason of the inscrutable depth of the
Waters. Moreover, in the deep Sea, there are many kinds