"A rock, which, rising to the surface of the water, the breeze had exposed"

"A rock, which, rising to the surface of the water, the breeze had exposed"

Travelogues--James Spencer Knox--Lough Derg--Description

Knox reveals that the "serpent" is a rock

James Spencer Knox, 1789-1862

Pastoral Annals. By an Irish Clergyman [i.e. James S. Knox], p. 392

R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, London

1840

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"As it had seemed to me, so [the lake serpent] in fact turned out; a rock, which, rising to the surface of the water, the breeze had exposed. I brought the boat close alongside, and stepped upon it with no other evil consequences, then, or since, to rebuke my temerity, than a partial wetting of my feet. The matter being now placed beyond question, I earnestly besought the boatman to follow me. But this they requested to be excused from; and as I was almost unknown to them, and consequently possessed no personal influence which might have counterbalanced their apprehensions, I desisted from the hopeless endeavour. In truth, the awe of their recent panic was upon the."

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