f p f
S E Ç T. XIII.
Suit Farthei* I have, ïàM eft i l | 'Éfê iiRëllaÉ^rièë! tà a i •
confirmaSoû5.!^^owj^ ^ 'e concérriihg/'this vaft, butHhitheWO hârdlf a talbkfiSWïi
Sea^animal J ' aM''bêw' I ÛiîdlrèlâteîfiÉtM^ wh&l I
think: is mbft probable, fome properties that may be prefuméd to
belong to it. This may give fome light into t-he*hifto*y of ifc, and
alfp ferve as a farther confirmation *of what has been faid Concerné
isg^'i® î Mr.'TJùkè b ^ e ^ rih^% iS'ï)ëfdriptidâ:iôf'V l^ r© :^ rfp8®ËS'W
■certain iflands whichfuddenly appear, and as* Tuddenily vanifla.
This was ra thing no-body could comprehend ; fo that'one'ought
not to wonder at the pommon people, and even-thofe that yw-ere
a dègreé above them, for lopkihg upon thofe moving iflands t,p
be inhabited by èvil « fpiTÎtSy '-whîeh' appeared1 dfeméttoeS in Rich
■ ,|>Méèswhëfe t h b i f è i î ^
that there was' fio fuëh thing asS $;i®ck,i «acb ie^ahâ%®d^obüt
however, they ûfteir * at^àt#hfeh7jiacM
pearanceJ ôf" land, and falfi
reckonings, and were' taken ouf! of their courfe, !and brought
a «*» rf .into the greateft inconveniences*. Many fë a^ in ^ èop le . .give
£ 2 ? accounts of fuch appearances of land, and their fudRenlysVattiiiing
awayj and-particularly here in thé Ndrthsfh.ic Thefe-ifiandsy in
the boifterous ocean, cannot be imagined>t&*be- of the* naturel of
thofe real' floating: iflands, that are • feen ;on frefh rand Ragnated
waters1;’ and which 1 haW-obferyed, P.5 .i.^jf{aaa^Mnt8vhs^eaa
Norway, and ih other places..' Theft c&inld ■ hpt.piaffibly hold -or
Rand againR the violence of the wkvesdn the oceVm; which'Fifêak
the largeR veffels ; -and therefore our3 failors have, concluded this
delufion could come from no Other' than that-great decfivër! the
devil! Rut, according to the laws bf;: truth, wé ought not;:to
charge this apoflate fpirit without a caufe, . I rather think that
this devil, who fo fuddenly makes and unmakes .thefe Roaring
iflands, is nothing elfe'but the Kraken, which fome fed-faring
people call Soe-draulen, that lsj Soe-trOlden, Seaimifchief. What
confirms me in tins opinion is the following occurrence, quoted
by that worthy Swedifh phyfician Dr. Urban Hieme, in his Short
Introdu&ion to an Enquiry into the Ores and Minerals of that
country, p. 98, from Baron Charles Grippenhielm. "The quota»*
* Concerning moving iflands, fee Èverh. Harpelii Mund. Mirab. Toip. I. LiB^ iv.
cap. 20,21 ; and in Thormod. Torf. there is a remarkable teftimony of the fame kind,
concerning an ifland appearing in Breidefiord, on the coaft of Iceland, Annales notant,
emerfiffe exundis infulam quandam vel rupes (An. 134.5) antea nnnquam vifas in firm
Iflandiæ Brediafiordo. Hift. Norw. P. IV. L. ix. c. viii. p. 477. It is a pity that he
does ndt-tell W whether it always remained, there.
tion
tion?' 1 cny^^^mongffcjthe rocks afioiit Stockholm theije is
t n » f land,.!jw|iich£a£ ^her fii^es dif-l
appears;, audas fg^nf|gain ijfe o th ^ g^ ^ if^ u r su s Has placed
this ^laht.ifla’^ i i^ g s t ^ap-JThe peafants, WjnJ«iafl» it !&u^§sr 1
°re,f ^ i i m j . t h e open
fea,,bat I cqdl^^ver^fip^f^ pOne .Sunt|a^,^when I ’was ©ufcj
among funding .the coafl, it happened ,tliat,'(in o?er
.I,i|W fomethipg likeMaree pQint^Jand.in. thojlStwhich
£|£Bris 4 me a. liftlej- and I .{drought .that I hadp inadvertently
paffe^t%mtgye^be|oreA| .j^On to a .p ^ f& ^ o
enq t ( y i t ^ fO r so r^but ^ . j y h e n . e c pu 1 cf lee nothings
of itf^,on, ,^af^nt faid.all^t^cl^anc^that'th-i^ prog- I
' wofl-ipjat^dtaiRprm,qr?a^|pfquanti'ty^^Eiili/ ^c^!^q¥ai Qrip-
penhielmr. ? Now r y v h o . c a n a p t ^lfcoVer^ at- firfl' fights,
that with its ^points ana
prognoRrcM^spf^ifhT*^annbXpofflbly be any thing elfe but.
the. Kraken^ j^h^qn^o^Soe^horwen,' imp coper tyi placed4n a map
by.Burteus as>a^ i|and^||co|abl,y the, .creature ^ ke^ps ^ h'imfelf a l-•
ways about that fpot, and oftjen (®ifes,^upjamongR -rthe mcks .and
C ^ * fa
What the credulous5,01. -Marius, in HiR^Sept^B'Lib? W
writes,. ,pf the Whale .beipgAo 1-arge, that h ^ a | c ^ ^
.looked, uppn^ an ifland ]. apd th'at.;pieopl4gmi'g$t_ land-, light
aB(l do various kinds of work upon itMjs ,a • notprioufly Tabii--|, I
hulou^and ridie,pious.romance. His words arp • ‘iljnde ,pierum-'
que^elev^to dorfd iuo fuper undas,*a ira^p^psnhim*Bu3 crefli-.
, tut eflei; .quam infula. Ifiaqjie nautse ad i^um 'a|g^unt 8c fup^.' J
eum afeendunt, palos figunt, naves alligint,. focos, pro-.qibis- -co-•
qirendk.accendunt. Donee tandem cetus, fentiem'ignpm, fefp in'
profun^u.m^mergat, 8cc. ^Arenas atiquando dorfo fuo [toUit^ in
quihusp. ingjhqnteitempeflate, nautae terram -fe invenrfle.gaudentes,:
anchors demiffis, falfa firmitate quiefcunt,. ac ignes accenfos bellua
fe^^^^^hito,cpmm°ta fe in aquas mergit, hominefque cum na-
vibus, nifi anchoras rumpantur. in profundnm atf rah it,” Wermv
eafily fee what gaveixeafibnto fheprobaS^ withthe imtprobabie,
by recollefting what, has been ohferved above of the
Kraken;; of, which^egple have had fpdje ,imperfe£l i^ea for feve’ - -
ral ages back. Even Pliny, in his time, had heard fome obfeure ac- It wa3 not eR.
count of fuch a Sea-animal-as is here treated of. This may bp ^ un- ^
concluded froiii his words,ire Lib. i^:. dap. iv. cc Maximum aninili ^ . a **
in'f tndico mari Priflris & lahena-eft, inGaRjco oteano Phy^ev, !
ingentis cplifeinse.ffiodo fe’ attollens, altiorque navium veli’s dilu-
viem qiiandameru£fans. In Gaditano oceano ARBOR, intantunj
vaftis