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of his appearance when I saw him; and immediately
above it a reproduction of Bishop Pontoppidan’s
picture of the same.
In further elucidation of this subject I now add
the following extracts from the ‘Natural History
of Norway ’ (1751), by the very learned and Right
Reverend Erich Pontoppidan, Bishop of Bergen,
and Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences
of Copenhagen.
He commences with an account of the minor
monster, the sea snake, thus:[1]
“The Soe Ormen, the sea snake, Serpens
marinus magnus, called by some in this country
the Aale-Tust, is a wonderful and terrible sea
monster, which extremely deserves to be taken
notice of by those who are curious to look into
the extraordinary works of the great Creator.
Amongst these the Kraken, which I am going
to describe, is to be considered the most
extraordinary in length. But here I must again, as
I did of the merman, first give the reader proper
authorities for the real existence of this creature,
before I come to treat of its nature and
properties. This creature, particularly in the North
Sea, continually keeps himself in the bottom of
the sea, excepting in the months of July and
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