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Mermaids Not Fabulous,
that there were small bones in the fins , with which he swam . This he related as a thing known to every one in that part of the world . " Theodorus Gaza relates ; Th « t when he was in the Morea , such a woman Was drove on that coast by a violent storm ; that he saw her , and she was very well looked j that she sighed , and seemed very much concerned when a number of people came round her ; that he had ity on herand caused the people to stand at a distance 5
p , that she profited by the opportunity , and , by the help of her fins and rolling , she got into the water and got off . " Georgins Trapanzantius says , he saw ' from the sea-shore such a Mermaid , very handsome , appear several times above water ; In Epirus , he says , there appeared a sea-man , who for sometime ' watched near a spring of waterand endeavoured to catch young
, women that came there ; he was with much difficulty at length caught himself ; but they could never get him to eat . " Ludoyicus Vives relates , that in his time a sea-man was taken in Holland , and was carefully kept for two years ; that he began to speak , or at least to make a kind of disagreeable noise , in imitation of speech ; that he found an opportunity , and got into the sea .
The Portuguese speak of Mermaids as a common thing on the coast of Zofala and Mosambique . " Janius says > in his tinie , at Swart Wall , near the Brile , the skeleton of a Triton was hanging in the middle of the church . " To this purpose , a friend of mine tells me , he Was informed by a fisherman , that when he was a boy at Moslensluys , near to Tou , they caught , in the night-time , a Mermaid , half an ell long ^ that was perfectly like to a woman ; it died soon . He declared lfe had often seen things taken out of a cod fish , which had that
appearance . "A gentleman of good character in the Hague told me , in the year 1719 , that he saw a very perfect skeleton at the house of a Danish envoy ,, which he said had been caught near to Copenhagen , And Vossius says , that there were once five or six caught near Copenhagen ; and the skeleton of one caught in the year 16 44 is to be seen there .
" Joan Dilerey relates a curious story of some American fishers . One night ; it being a perfect calm , they observed a Mermaid coming into their vessel ; and they fearing it to be some mischievous fish , in the fright , one of them cut , with a hatchet , the creature ' s hand off , which fell within board , and the creature itself sunk immediatelbut came soon againand gave a deep sig h as one
y , up , feeling paiii . The hand was found to have five fingers and nails like a man ' s hand . " In the last age , one of the Dutch herring busses caught a Mermaid ih their nets . The man , who was taking out the her * rings , was so confounded when he came to it , that in his frig ht he threw it into the sea . He repented too late of what he had done ,
when he observed clearly that it had ahead add bod y like a man . After the foregoing relations from reading add hearsay , the author , Mr . Valen'tyn , declares what he saw himjelfgn . his voyage
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Mermaids Not Fabulous,
that there were small bones in the fins , with which he swam . This he related as a thing known to every one in that part of the world . " Theodorus Gaza relates ; Th « t when he was in the Morea , such a woman Was drove on that coast by a violent storm ; that he saw her , and she was very well looked j that she sighed , and seemed very much concerned when a number of people came round her ; that he had ity on herand caused the people to stand at a distance 5
p , that she profited by the opportunity , and , by the help of her fins and rolling , she got into the water and got off . " Georgins Trapanzantius says , he saw ' from the sea-shore such a Mermaid , very handsome , appear several times above water ; In Epirus , he says , there appeared a sea-man , who for sometime ' watched near a spring of waterand endeavoured to catch young
, women that came there ; he was with much difficulty at length caught himself ; but they could never get him to eat . " Ludoyicus Vives relates , that in his time a sea-man was taken in Holland , and was carefully kept for two years ; that he began to speak , or at least to make a kind of disagreeable noise , in imitation of speech ; that he found an opportunity , and got into the sea .
The Portuguese speak of Mermaids as a common thing on the coast of Zofala and Mosambique . " Janius says > in his tinie , at Swart Wall , near the Brile , the skeleton of a Triton was hanging in the middle of the church . " To this purpose , a friend of mine tells me , he Was informed by a fisherman , that when he was a boy at Moslensluys , near to Tou , they caught , in the night-time , a Mermaid , half an ell long ^ that was perfectly like to a woman ; it died soon . He declared lfe had often seen things taken out of a cod fish , which had that
appearance . "A gentleman of good character in the Hague told me , in the year 1719 , that he saw a very perfect skeleton at the house of a Danish envoy ,, which he said had been caught near to Copenhagen , And Vossius says , that there were once five or six caught near Copenhagen ; and the skeleton of one caught in the year 16 44 is to be seen there .
" Joan Dilerey relates a curious story of some American fishers . One night ; it being a perfect calm , they observed a Mermaid coming into their vessel ; and they fearing it to be some mischievous fish , in the fright , one of them cut , with a hatchet , the creature ' s hand off , which fell within board , and the creature itself sunk immediatelbut came soon againand gave a deep sig h as one
y , up , feeling paiii . The hand was found to have five fingers and nails like a man ' s hand . " In the last age , one of the Dutch herring busses caught a Mermaid ih their nets . The man , who was taking out the her * rings , was so confounded when he came to it , that in his frig ht he threw it into the sea . He repented too late of what he had done ,
when he observed clearly that it had ahead add bod y like a man . After the foregoing relations from reading add hearsay , the author , Mr . Valen'tyn , declares what he saw himjelfgn . his voyage