Mythical MonstersW.H. Allen & Company, 1886 - 407 páginas |
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Ammianus Marcellinus ancient animal antiquity appearance Asia beasts believe birds boat body bones Book Book of Wonders called Captain cave chap China Chinese coast coils colour contained creature cubits Deluge deposits described discovery distance dragon dynasty Edrisi elephant Emperor Eocene existence extinct fable feet in length feet long fish flying Fung geological gigantic Han dynasty head Herodotus hippopotamus horn horse hyænas Iguanodon Indian inhabitants island Kiao London marine Mastodon miles Ming dynasty Miocene monster mountain mouth myth Natural History neck North Norway observed ocean passage period Pliny Pliocene present day probably quoting rain referred regions remains remarkable reptiles resembling rhinoceros river Royal Asiatic Society says sea-serpent seen Shan Hai King ship snake species story Strabo supposed surface tail thousand tion tradition trees unicorn vessel Voyages Wák whale winged serpents Wonders by Land
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Página 293 - ... no portion of which was, to our perception, used in propelling it through the water, either by vertical or horizontal undulation. It passed rapidly, but so close under our lee quarter, that had it been a man of my acquaintance I should have easily recognised his features with the naked eye...
Página 281 - I believed to be from 70 to 80 feet. When nearest to me it did not raise its head wholly above water, so that the neck being under water I could perceive no shining filaments thereon, if it had any.
Página 319 - N that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent ; andhe shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
Página 81 - It appeared to them more philosophical to speculate on the possibilities of the past, than patiently to explore the realities of the present ; and having invented theories under the influence of such maxims, they were consistently unwilling to test their validity by the criterion of their accordance with the ordinary operations of nature. On the contrary, the claims of each new hypothesis to credibility appeared enhanced by the great contrast...
Página 221 - Yaou, the waters, flowing out of their channels, inundated the Middle kingdom. Snakes and dragons occupied it, and the people had no place where they could settle themselves. In the low grounds they made nests for themselves, and in the high grounds they made caves. It is said in the Book of History, ' The waters in their wild course warned me.
Página 4 - That the gods and goddesses of the ancient Greeks, the Phoenicians, the Hindoos, and the Scandinavians were simply the kings, queens, and heroes of Atlantis; and the acts attributed to them in mythology are a confused recollection of real historical events.
Página 314 - 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.
Página 293 - On our attention being called to the object it was discovered to be an enormous serpent, with head and shoulders kept about four feet constantly above the surface of the sea...
Página 184 - The place where the bones lie is at the entrance of a narrow gorge between steep mountains, which there open upon a spacious plain communicating with the great plain of Egypt. The story goes, that with the spring the winged snakes come flying from Arabia towards Egypt, but are met in this gorge by the birds called ibises, who forbid their entrance and destroy them all. The Arabians assert, and the Egyptians also admit, that it is on account of the service thus rendered that the Egyptians hold the...
Página 278 - Romsdale-fjord, fishing. The sea was, after a warm sunshiny day, quite calm. About seven o'clock in the afternoon, a little distance from shore, near the ballast place and Molde Hooe, they saw a long marine animal, which slowly moved itself forward, as it appeared to them, with the help of two fins, on the fore-part of the body nearest the head, which they judged from the boiling of the water on both sides of it. The visible part of the body appeared...