some other flat-fish.

Mr. Kriukof gave a curious description to Capt. Kotzebue of a marine
serpent which pursued him off Behring's island: it was red and
enormously long, the head resembling that of the sea-lion, at the same
time two disproportionately large eyes gave it a frightful appearance.
Mr. Kriukof's situation seems to have been almost as perilous above
the surface of the sea, as Lieutenant Hardy's Spanish diver's was,
with the _tinterero_ underneath!

In the History of Greenland, (which, by the by, may with propriety be
called Parrynese,) I think there is a well authenticated account of a
large sea-serpent seen upon the coast of that vast insular land in
Hudson's sea.

Sea-Devil.--Extract from the log-book of the ship Douglas.--"Sailed
May 3rd from Curaçoa. May 6th, at three P.M. in lat. 35 long. 68.40,
made, as we supposed, a vessel bottom up, five or six miles
distant--proceeded within forty feet of the object, which appeared in
the form of a turtle--its height above water ten or twelve feet; in
length twenty-five or thirty feet, and in breadth twelve feet, with
oars or flappers, one on each side; twelve or fifteen feet in length,
one-third of the way from his tail forward, and one on each side near
his tail five feet long. The tail twenty to twenty-five feet
long,--had a large lion face with large eyes. The shell or body looked
like a clinker-built boat of twenty-five or thirty tons, bottom up,
and the seams of the laps newly paid. There were some large branches
on him. This animal was standing south-east, and in the course of
Bermuda, and his velocity about two knots per hour. A vessel running
foul of this monster might be much injured."--_New York Paper_, May 22.