Great sea serpent seen off the coast of Greenland in 1734, Scoliophis atlanticus. From a description by Hans Egede. Steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Hamilton's Amphibious Carnivora, part of Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Mammalia, Edinburgh, 1839.

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