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From the New York Evening Post
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Monsters of the Deep.-The enormous
marine animal now exhibiting in Broad
way. called "the Vampire Of the Ocean"
is certainly one of the most extraordinary
productions of the deep, and gives some
degree of probability to the many accounts
I'VE have in books of travels and others, Of
1.-THE existence of those vast sea animals.
The Vampire is so singular in its forma-
Ition, that it would take more space to de-
scribe it, than our limits will allow but
some idea may be entertained OF its bulk
when we mention that it weighs Jfpe tons.
The resistance it made when caught was
so great, that by slight turn OF its body
lit SNAPPED off the head Of the harpoon with
which it was struck, with as much ease as
Iif it had been tobacco pipe.


In Captain Won kotzebue's recent voy-
age. we find a notice of gigantic species
of pol vpus, bearing striking resemblance


to the terrific description given of the


Hraken by Bishop Pontopiddon. He says


that "the Aleutians speak of a polypus


with arms twice as thick as those of a


strong man, which it once threw round


ore of their bay,laus, and would have car
lried it into the abyss of the Aleutian, had
'|they not had presence Of mind to cut, with
a knife through the fleshy arm of the mon.
ster, which was furnished with large suck.
ers. The polypus remains with his body
! fast at the bottom of the sea, and gene,


rally chooses a place from which it can
reach the surface with its arms" In the


last supplement to Horsburgh's Indian


Directory, we have an account extracted
\ from the log book of the Herculese East
IIndiaman, under date June 1916, of the
discovery, on her outward bound passage


from England, of two large marine ami
mails which at first were taken for rocks
or "the Slot Van Capplle Shoal." One
: of them being right ahead the vessel. "we


were in the act of hauling away from it
!, when we discovered it disappear all a,


once, showing'an immense fish's tail as il
went below the surface of the sea. The
3 ship, no doubt, had disturbed it as it lay
! without motion before it got close, the sea
t making a small break on the head or fore
D part of the body, which was about sixteen
p feet above water, and about 80 feet in cir
s scumference, of white grey colour, GOV
d cred with mixture of barnacle, sea weed
+ &c. like wreck that had been long in thu
Y water.-The length could not be deter
u mined, but think it must have been grea
'-|by the appearance of the discoloured wa
i-ter over the animal. If we bad not got 8,
G suddenly close to it, should positively hav'
l. declared that we had seen the rocks abov,
d water about a mile distant from each 9th
l-er, as these animals lay without motion
E. part of them sixteen feet above water, ant
1.-The sea breaking over them.


,tl However cr"dalous many may be as t,
il the existence Of the Sea Serpent, Krinkof
of sea animal, which Iatel'
to| pursued him at Berhins's Island, is yer,


remarkable, and g0es lar to remove tn