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COMPILATIONS and bibliographies are double-edged weapons; though they facilitate access to some sources of information, they usually tend to intensify the concealment of others. Some two hundred reports of the sea-serpent have been collected and analysed in the works of Oudemans1 and of Gould2; but the record which follows has so far escaped scientific notice. Though trivial by itself, it corroborates a number of more detailed accounts of a similar monster in the North Atlantic towards the end of the eighteenth century.
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Oudemans, A. C., “The Great Sea-Serpent” (Leyden and London, 1892).
Gould, R. T., “The Case for the Sea-Serpent” (London, 1930); “The Loch Ness Monster” (London, 1934).
Hazlitt, W., “Memoirs of the late Thomas Holcroft” (London, 1816). (The present extract taken from “The Complete Works of William Hazlitt”, edit. P. P. Howe, 3, 252 (Dent, London, 1932).)
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TUCKER, D. An Uncollected Record of the Great Sea-serpent. Nature 176, 705 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1038/176705b0
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