The Pine-tree coast . alongthe New England coast. Not one of the scoffers whose incredulity is so activelyaroused when the royal ophidian is mentioned has a word to say against theoctopus, —of the two by much the hardest to believe in unless^one has had theevidence of his own eyes. The merman is another thing—if it be proper to callit so — about which Josselyn gives us the first precise information. Then Jos-selyn was again the first person to describe the White Mountains by thisentirely felicitous name, and he has added to the opinion that they were raisedby earthquakes, his settled convictio
The Pine-tree coast . alongthe New England coast. Not one of the scoffers whose incredulity is so activelyaroused when the royal ophidian is mentioned has a word to say against theoctopus, —of the two by much the hardest to believe in unless^one has had theevidence of his own eyes. The merman is another thing—if it be proper to callit so — about which Josselyn gives us the first precise information. Then Jos-selyn was again the first person to describe the White Mountains by thisentirely felicitous name, and he has added to the opinion that they were raisedby earthquakes, his settled conviction that these awful peaks are hollow, as*may be guessed by the resounding of the rain upon the level tops. Nordo we know that this ingenious theory has ever been actually mountains rose daily to his view, and were, he says, weather signs topeople at the coast. AVhile searching the country round for curiosities of all sorts, JohnJosselyn laid his hand upon something that he had never seen before. He^. HALBERD. FROM SCARBOROUGH TO PORTLAND BEAD. 136
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