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without the least variation in their accounts, that
when they row out several miles to sea,
particularly in hot summer days,” &c. He then tells
how they find the water shallowed, and finally
how the monster rises from the bottom, when
“they immediately leave off fishing, take to
their oars, and get away as fast as they can.
When they have reached the usual depth of the
place, and find themselves out of danger, they
lie upon their oars, and in a few minutes after,
they see this enormous monster come up to the
surface of the water; he then shows himself
sufficiently, though his whole body does not appear,
which in all likelihood no human eye ever beheld
(excepting the young of this species, which shall
afterwards be spoken of); its back or upper part,
which seems to be in appearance about an English
mile and a half in circumference (some say
more, but I choose the least for the greater
certainty), looks at first like a number of small
islands, surrounded with something that floats
and fluctuates like seaweeds. Here and there a
larger rising is observed like sand-banks,” &c.
In section 13 the worthy bishop takes up the
controversy concerning certain appearances, which
some have attributed to floating and vanishing
islands, and others to the Kraken. He sides with
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