A most strange, but true account of a very large sea-monster : that was found last Saturday in a common-shore in New Fleet-Street in Spittle-Fields, where at the Black-Swan alehouse, thousands of people resort to see it: herein you have the dimensions of the said surprizing creature, with the various conjectures of several able men concerning what may be the omen of this creatures leaving the sea, and to rove so far under ground, the common-shore where it was found running above two miles before it empties itself at Blackwall: the occasion of this creature's coming hither being likewise hinted on by P----ge in his monthly prognostications for this year 1704.

A most strange, but true account of a very large sea-monster : that was found last Saturday in a common-shore in New Fleet-Street in Spittle-Fields, where at the Black-Swan alehouse, thousands of people resort to see it: herein you have the dimensions of the said surprizing creature, with the various conjectures of several able men concerning what may be the omen of this creatures leaving the sea, and to rove so far under ground, the common-shore where it was found running above two miles before it empties itself at Blackwall: the occasion of this creature's coming hither being likewise hinted on by P----ge in his monthly prognostications for this year 1704.

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Imprint:London, : Printed for R. Smith, near Spittle-Fields-Market, 1704.
Description:1 online resource (1 sheet ([1] p.).)
Language:English
Subject:
Sea monsters -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Sea monsters.
England.
Early works.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11529490
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Notes:Caption title.
Item at C8:2[113] imperfect: print faded.
Reproduction of original in the British Library.
Item at A3:2[90a] imperfect: mutilated, affecting text.
Imprint from colophon.
Item at A3:2[90b] with: An excellent new copy of verses, being The sorrowful lamentation of Mrs. Cooke ..." London : Printed for C. Barnet, 1703.
Item at C8:2[113] with (on verso): A true and more particular account of a sharp and bloody engagement at sea, between the Dutch and the French fleet.
Early English books tract supplement interim guide C.40.m.9.[89]
Early English books tract supplement interim guide 816.m.23[115*]

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