Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 188
The Dugong. This and the seals pictured on the following page are probablythe origin of the myths of mermaids and mermen. are supposed to live within and under the sea.They are usually pictured with the form of ahuman being above the waist and that of afish below. The typical mermaid is supposedto… … I The Northern Fur Seal. combing it with one hand, while in the othershe holds a looking glass. Who would beA mermaid fair,Sinsjina; alone,Combing her hairUnder the sea? Tennyson — The Mermaid. Nearly all nations have folk-lore and fairytale accounts of mermaids, and sometimes ofmermen. Even the…
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